What's It Mean?
Landforms
Weathering
Erosion
Deposition
Erosion
Deposition
Differences
Vocabulary
100
The breaking down of rock on Earth's surface into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
100
Describe how Weathering can affect Mountains?
What is it can break them down over time?
100
A mudslide flowing down a steep hill
Erosion
100
The difference between weathering and erosion is:
Weathering makes things smaller, Erosion moves the smaller pieces
100
A process that causes rock and sediments to grind against other rocks. Starts with an A.
What is Abrasion?
100
Mountains and other surface features of the land.
What are landforms?
100
What can happen to a lake that receives a lot of deposited sediment over a long period of time?
It would fill in over time.
100
Water getting into cracks, freezing, and breaking rocks apart
Weathering
100
The difference between erosion and deposition is:
Erosion Moves Sediment, Deposition Builds it up or makes new landforms.
100
What can form when limestone dissolves, forms a void, and collapses under the force of gravity?
Sinkhole
100
The process by which weathered rock is picked up and moved to a new place.
What is erosion?
100
What is an area where the ocean meets the land called?
Coastline
100
Wind blowing sand from one location to another
Erosion
100
Weathering over long periods of time breaks rock into ____________ pieces. (larger or smaller)
smaller
100
A growing pile of deposited sediment at the mouth of a river.
What is a delta?
100
Huge sheets of ice that move slowly over land.
What are glaciers?
100
Draw a dune
100
Waves dropping sand on the beach.
Deposition
100
When rainwater seeps into cracks in rocks and freezes it expands and causes the rock to split apart.
What is the specific name of this type of weathering?
frost wedging
100
What is a body of water surrounded by land called?
Lake
100
The sudden movement of rocks and soil down the side of a hill because of gravity and rain.
What is a landslide?
100
Draw a delta
100
Glaciers abrading rocks as they drag across Earth's surface. (focus on the abrasion ocurring on the surface.
Weathering
100
The difference between physical and chemical weathering is:
What is Physical weathering breaks rocks into smaller pieces mechanically. Chemical weathering dissolves rock or makes them get smaller through chemical change.
100
What is the process where oxygen and water react to form rust (chemical weathering) on certain substances?
Starts with an O
Oxidation