Weathering
Erosion
Vocabulary
Rivers
Volcanoes/Earthquakes
100
The two main causes of physical weathering.
What are wind and water.
100
The picking up and removal of rock particles.
What is erosion?
100
A huge sheet of snow and ice that moves slowly over the land.
What is a glacier?
100
The two categories of rivers.
What are old and young?
100
Aftershock
What is the shaking of the earth after the initial shaking of an earthquake?
200
When water gets into cracks and freezes then expands rocks.
What is frost action?
200
The opposite of erosion.
What is deposition?
200
The supercontinent that existed millions of years ago.
What is Pangaea?
200
This river has meanders.
What is old river?
200
The place where an earthquake starts as rocks begin to slide past each other.
What is focus?
300
When acid rain eats away at a marble statue.
What is chemical weathering?
300
After particles are eroded away they are deposited. The deposited particles are called this.
What are sediments?
300
Heat from beneath the Earth's surface.
What is geothermal energy?
300
The shape of the bottom of a young river.
What is a "V" shape?
300
Lava beneath the earth's surface.
What is magma?
400
When water mixes with iron and eats away at it, the process is called this.
What is the oxidation process or rust.
400
Two examples of mass wasting.
What are landslides, mudslides, and avalanches.
400
The amount of energy released in an earthquake.
What is magnitude?
400
This river has a straight path.
What is a young river?
400
Seismograph
What is a sensitive device that detects the shaking of the Earth's crust during an earthquake?
500
The process of a rock peeling away in layers like an onion.
What is exfoliation?
500
The rate in which mass wasting occurs is dependant on this.
What is how steep the slope is.
500
The layer beneath Earth's crust.
What is the mantle?
500
The old river has these along the side of it. These make good farming areas.
What are flat (flood) plains?
500
This can be a result of an earthquake occurring under water.
What is a tsunami?
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