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Formations
What makes it
Vocabulary
100
The breaking down of rock on Earth's surface into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
100
Wind and water can carry sand and small pieces of rock to new locations. True or False
What is True?
100

A desert floor generally has lots of rocks on its surface. Why are there rocks on the surface and not sand? 

What is " The sand was eroded". 

100

A kettle lake is formed when a __________ deposits a large chunk of ice that melts and become a lake. 

What is a Glacier?

100
Small pieces that break off of rocks.
What is sediments?
200
Mountains and other surface features of the land.
What are landforms?
200
When rainwater seeps into cracks in rocks and __________, it expands and causes the rock to split apart.
What is freezes?
200

What causes a sand dune to form? 

What is " an obstruction causes sand to be deposited because the wind loses energy and drops the sand" 

200

A sand dune is formed when _________ __________s sediment on an obstacle. 

What is wind and deposits?

200
Gigantic formations of ice that do not completely melt over the course of a year.
What is a glacier?
300
The process by which weathered rock is picked up and moved to a new place.
What is erosion?
300
Weathering over long periods of time breaks rock into ____________ pieces. (larger or smaller)
What is smaller?
300

Very fine sediment called ______  can be carried for long distances 

What is loess? 

300
A canyon is formed when _______ __________s away sediment  

What is water and erodes? 

300
A growing pile of deposited sediment at the mouth of a river.
What is a delta?
400
Huge sheets of ice that move slowly over land.
What are glaciers?
400
Fast flowing rivers can pick up and carry rocks (far/short) distances.
What is far?
400

A _____ ________ is formed when a large chunk of a glacier breaks off and melts. 

What is a "kettle lake"

400

An alluvial fan is formed when __________ __________ sediment on dry land  

What is water and deposits? 

400

Large piles of sediment that are leftover from glaciers when they melt.

What is Glacial till?

500
The sudden movement of rocks and soil down the side of a hill because of gravity and rain.
What is a landslide?
500
All of the following are forces that change landforms EXCEPT: a. wind b. moving water c. glaciers c. physical features
What is physical features?
500

A _______ glacier will make land forms like u-shaped valleys and horns 

What is alpine?

500

An erratic formed when a glacier ___________ large boulders on precariously on top of other rocks  

What is deposits?

500

The opposite of creep.

Rapid mass movement 

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