Miscellaneous
A train covers 168 km in 4 hours. Find its speed.
42 km/hr
What is weathering?
The process by which rock materials are broken down
What is erosion?
The process by which rock materials are carried from one place to another.
What is deposition?
The process by which rock materials are dropped off.
What is a landform?
A natural feature of Earth's surface.
Ron walks 22.5 km in 5 hours, find his speed.
What is 4.5 km/hr?
Temperature changes, pressure changes, plant and animal actions, water, wind, and gravity.
What are agents of physical weathering?
If the roof of a cave collapses, it creates this.
What is a sinkhole?
Deposition occurs when wind or water _________________________.
What is slow down?
Gigantic formations of ice that do not completely melt over the course of a year.
What is a glacier?
Weathering changes Earth's surface...(slowly/quickly)
What is slowly?
Oxidation, acid rain, and lichens.
What are agents of chemical weathering?
The sudden movement of rocks and soil down the side of a hill because of gravity and rain.
What is a landslide?
The area where a stream's load is usually deposited.
What is along its bed, banks, and mouths?
A column of rocks separated from the main shoreline.
What is a sea stack?
Small pieces that break off of rocks.
What is sediment?
When rainwater seeps into cracks in rocks and __________, it expands and causes the rock to split apart.
What is freezes?
Erosion causes streams to _______________ and _________________.
What is widen and deepen?
An often fertile area of land where layers of deposited sediment can form.
What is a floodplain?
A growing pile of deposited sediment at the mouth of a river.
What is a delta?
The difference between physical and chemical weathering is: A. Physical weathering just breaks things apart and chemical weathering changes the rocks forever. B. Physical weathering breaks things apart and chemical weathering burns rocks with chemicals.
What is A?
The action of rocks wearing away other rocks.
What is abrasion?
The amount of water that a stream carries in a given amount of time.
What is discharge?
Deposition causes streams to ______________.
What is become less deep?
A landform that is caused by deposition.
What is: a beach; a delta; a sand dune?