Disintegration of rocks into smaller pieces of the same stuff.
What is mechanical weathering?
200
This type of erosion is common in a hot, dry climate.
What is wind erosion?
200
Where most running water eventually deposits sediment.
What is the ocean floor?
200
Evaporation of water through plants.
What is transpiration?
200
Dissolved sediment in a river is carried this way.
What is in solution?
300
Decomposition of rocks into different substances.
What is chemical weathering?
300
The primary force behind all mass movements.
What is gravity?
300
Piles of rock fragments found at the base of a cliff.
What is a talus slope?
300
Water seeping into the ground.
What is infiltration?
300
The area drained by rivers and its tributaries.
What is the watershed?
400
When oxygen reacts with minerals changing them into iron oxide.
What is oxidation?
400
This agent of erosion produces U-shaped valleys.
What are valley glaciers?
400
Daily Double!!
It does not have to be phrased in the form of a question.
Fill in the blank.
Larger, more dense and more ______ sediments settle faster to the bottom of still water.
round
400
Water vapor turning into water.
What is condensation?
400
A cut off meander.
What is an oxbow lake?
500
When rocks peel off the outer layers because of pressure unloading.