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What is a Sand Dune?
When rocks break into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
Landform that is created by dissolving.
What are caves?
Weathering that affects the size or shape of a landform.
What is mechanical weathering?
When rainfall increases weathering and erosion also….
What is increase?
Name this landform
What is a river delta?
When sediment is transferred from one location to another.
What is erosion?
This is when sediments get pressed together or packed in.
What is compaction?
Weathering that affects the landforms chemical makeup.
What is chemical weathering?
This change agent is responsible for carving out U Shaped valleys.
What are glaciers?
Two scales that are used to measure Geoscience Processes
What are Time and Size?
When sediment is dropped and builds new landforms.
What is deposition?
This is when sedimentary rocks get “glued” together.
What is compaction?
Oxidation and hydrolysis are examples of this type of weathering.
What is chemical weathering?
This change agent is responsible for carving out canyons and carrying sediment to be deposited as river deltas.
What is water?
Name this landform
What is a canyon?
Ice Wedging is what type of weathering?
What is mechanical?
A land erosion event that happens quickly and affects a small area of the Earth.
What are landslides?
When waves crash onto ocean beaches this occurs.
What is erosion?
This change agent is the most powerful of them all.
What is water?
Natural processes that occur on earth.
What are geoprocesses?
This causes rocks to become smooth .
What is weathering?
Earth material that is broken down by weathering.
What is sediment?
The force that causes water to run downhill and seek the lowest elevation.
What is gravity?
These are the change agents that cause weathering, erosion, and deposition.
What are wind, water, gravity and ice?