This is a is a fan-shaped pattern of deposited sediment load.
What is delta
100
This is the is the measure of the change in elevation over a certain distance.
What is gradient
100
When sediments, soil and rocks are added to a landform or land mass
What is deposition
200
The physical break down of rocks into smaller pieces.
What is mechanical weathering?
200
This forms when waves erode and undercut rock to make steep slopes
What is sea cliff.
200
This is a flat area formed from many layers of deposited sediment.
What is a floodplain.
200
This refers to the materials carried by a stream.
What is load.
200
This is a circular depression that is caused when the roof of a cave collapses.
What is sinkhole
300
The chemical break down of rocks. The composition of the rock changes.
What is chemical weathering
300
A curve in a river.
What is a meander.
300
Acid rain dissolving the surface of rocks is an example of this.
What is weathering
300
Water getting into cracks of rocks, freezing, and breaking the rocks apart is an example of this.
What is weathering, or ice wedging.
300
This is the place where land and a body of water meet.
What is shoreline
400
When oxygen reacts with minerals changing them into iron oxide. Rust appears
What is oxidation
400
The primary force behind all mass movements
What is gravity
400
The difference between physical and chemical weathering is: A. Physical weathering just breaks things apart and chemical weathering changes the rocks forever.
B. Physical weathering breaks things apart and chemical weathering burns rocks with chemicals.
What is A
400
This refers to the amount of water that a stream carries in a given amount of time.
What is discharge.
400
This is a deep scar carved in the geosphere by the erosive powers of water.
What is canyon.
500
When rocks peel off the outer layers (like peeling an onion)
What is exfoilation
500
The number one agent of erosion
What is water.
500
The difference between erosion and deposition is:
a. erosion moves sediment from one place to another and deposition is a physical feature on the Earth.
b. deposition is the process of dropping , or depositing , sediment in a new location and erosion is the process of moving sediment from one place to another.
What is b
500
This is is the path that a stream follows.
What is channel.
500
This is a fan-shaped deposit that forms on dry land.