Weathering
Water Erosion
Erosion (the other 4)
Deposition and Landforms
Soils and other
100
This is when rock is broken down by rain, running water, wind, ice-wedging, chemical
What is Weathering?
100
The valley shape formed from moving glaciers.
What are U-shaped valleys?
100
The official name that encompases Rockslides, Slump, Creep, Avalanches and Mudslides.
What is Mass Wasting?
100
The Hudson River, Susquehanna, St. Lawrence and Lake Champlain are all examples.
What are watersheds bonus: What would the Mohawk river (that feeds into the Hudson) be called?
100
The biggest reason for erosion.
What is water?
200
Abrasion, Frost Wedging, Organic Activity and Exfoliation are examples.
What is Mechanical Weathering?
200
The erosion of sediments on the coastline of the Gulf of Mexico is caused mainly by this force.
What is ocean waves?
200
The three "U's" of glacial erosion and deposition.
What is Unsorted and Unlayered sediement and U-shaped valleys?
200
Flat areas where you should plant crops.
What is a flood plain?
200
This is how plants get water.
What is Capillarity?
300
Produces lots breakdown in climates with lots of rain and that are near the equator.
What is Chemical Weathering?
300
This is the relationship between particle size and stream velocity.
What is with an increase in velocity, there is an increase in particle size?
300
The large masses that came from the north that left moraines, striations and till in NYS.
What are continental glaciers?
300
Has the most resistant rock in NYS and was formed from uplift.
What is the Adirondack Mountains region?
300
This is the description of sediment found as you move from a rivers mouth into a larger body of water.
What is larger sediment going to smaller sediment in a delta?
400
The factors affecting weathering rates.
What is climate, surface area (greater the SA, greater the rate) and rock composition (some more resistant than others)?
400
The minimum water velocity needed to move pebbles.
What is 15 cm/s?
400
The long axis points toward where the mass of ice came from.
What is a Drumlin (the other feature we use to identify direction is called...)?
400
Has horizontal bedding and is found in NYS.
What is a plateau?
400
If something has a high this, than water will move through very fast.
What is Infiltration?
500
This is the result of abrasion on sediment
What is rounder, smoother and smaller?
500
Oxbow lakes and lots of turns on a wide flat flood plain.
What is an old age or meandering river?
500
It can help you figure out which way the wind is blowing.
What is a sand dune?
500
Three of the ways that lead to runoff.
What are? Steep Slope No vegetation Saturated ground Frozen ground Poorly sorted sediment
500
This is the last layer to form in a soil profile.
What is the B Horizon (acids from A Horizon flow down to further weather C Horizon)
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