Weathering
Water Erosion
Ice, Wind, and Wasting
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***Bonus***
100
The breakdown of large rocks into fragments by physical forces, such as rapid changes in temperature, and grit carried by wind and running water.
What is Physical Weathering
100
The source of a river
What is headwaters
100
Vast sheets of glacial ice that cover immense areas of relatively flat land
What is a continental glacier?
100
The running water may eventually carve a channel in the ground that cannot be repaired by ordinary cultivation
What is gullying?
100
What is a natural ridge formed along a edge of river's channel?
What is Levee?
200
What is the importance of water in reference to chemical weathering?
Water is the main agent in chemical weathering.
200
a fan-shaped deposit of sediments at the mouth of a river
What is Delta?
200
The eroding action of windblown sand
What is abrasion?
200
a pillarlike structure of rock formed when the middle of a sea arch collapses
What is sea stack?
200
Large, deep grooves and scratches in rock, produced by glaciers
What is striae?
300
Land that borders a river and is covered by river water in flood time.
What is Floodplain
300
This modifies a smooth slope into a series of level, stair-like steps
What is terracing?
300
The piles of debris left behind when a glacier melts
What is moraines?
300
A large, funnel-shaped depression in the ground caused by cavern collapse is a
What is a sinkhole?
400
Breaking or peeling away of rocks in layers.
What is exfoliation?
400
a lake formed when a sharp curve in a river is cut off from the rest of the river.
What is an oxbow lake?
400
The huge deposit when a dust storm weakens, it often drops its load over a large area, creating a thick layer of clay and silt
What is loess?
400
a huge bowl-shaped depression dug out by a valley glacier
What is cirque?
400
Particles to heavy to be lifted by the wind are rolled in short bursts through a process
What is a creep?
500
a natural acid, found in rainwater and ground water, promotes chemical weathering of rocks.
What is carbonic acid?
500
One of numerous streams that feed into a river at various points.
What is a tributary?
500
Features such as sandstone arches and uniquely shaped rocks are the result of this process
What is Aeolian Process
500
Of all the forces of erosion, this has the greatest effect on the earth's surface
What is running water?
500
Regions of the earth's surface where limestone is exposed and abundant are called
What is a karst?
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