Carving the Land
Beach and Wind erosion
Ice Erosion
Rocks
Which type?
100
This is the process by which broken rock material is carried from place to another by moving wind, water, or ice.
What is erosion?
100
This is a natural piece of land that extends out into the water.
What is a headland?
100
Are huge masses of slow moving ice.
What are glaciers?
100
This is a solid material that is made up of 2 or more minerals.
What is a rock?
100
Marble is an example of this rock type.
What is metamorphic?
200
This is the process by which rock is broken into smaller pieces.
What is weathering
200
This is a body of water that is partly enclosed by land.
What is a bay?
200
This is used to describe how a glacier moves.
What is a bulldozer?
200
This is a rock that can be mined for the minerals it contains.
What is an ore?
200
Granite is a type of this rock.
What is igneous?
300
This is made up of a river and all the waterways that drain into it.
What is a river system?
300
This pile of rocks slow down waves and prevents beach erosion
What is jetty?
300
This is the mound of dirt cause by a glacier.
What is moraine?
300
This is a rock type that is formed from layers of sediment pressed together over time.
What are sedimentary rocks?
300
A diamond is an example of this rock type.
What is metamorphic?
400
These are the materials carried by moving wind or water.
What are sediments?
400
These are piles of sand that are deposited in one place.
What are sand dunes?
400
These are the large boulders a glacier often drops as it melts.
What are erratics?
400
This rock type changes one rock type into another.
What are metamorphic rocks?
400
Fossils can be found in this rock type.
What is sedimentary?
500
Sediments that form a flat plain.
What is a delta?
500
This type of erosion carves buttes.
What is sand blasting?
500
These carve, or scrape, out the surface under a glacier.
What are glacier grooves?
500
This rock type forms rocks from magma or lava.
What are igneous rocks?
500
These rocks are usually found near water.
What is sedimentary?
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