Weathering
Erosion
Deposition
Streams
Grab Bag
100

A rock freezes and expanding water cracks it (type of weathering)

What is Mechanical Weathering

100

When sediment moves

What is erosion

100
When sediment stops moving

What is deposition

100

The part of the water cycle responsible for streams

What is runoff
100

Wisconsin State Bird

What is a Robin

200

A chemical reaction between vinegar and copper (type of weathering

What is chemical weathering

200
The agent of erosion most likely to only move small particles

What is Wind Erosion

200

How does speed affect deposition

agents slow down and deposit sediment

200

How does slope affect speed of streams

Steeper the slope, higher speed

200

Where Mr. Flinner went to school

What is Platteville, ISU, UWM, UWRF...

300

Roots growing in a crack (specific term)

What is Root Pry

300

The two agents that don't sort sediment

What are ice and gravity

300

How wind deposits sediments

the wind stops and sediment is left behind

300

The feature formed by erosion in the outside of a meander

What is a cutbank

300

Where the Old Abe Mascot came from

Civil War Regiment Mascot

400

Carbonic acid in rainwater dissolving limestone (type of weathering)

What is Chemical Weathering

400

The way glaciers move sediments

Ice builds up and picks up rocks

400

Sediment settling after falling from a cliff

What is gravitational deposition

400

The feature formed on the inside of a meander

What is a point bar.

400

What Popeye ate to get really strong

What is Spinach

500

Mechanical weathering when rocks collide together (specific term)

What is abrasion

500

The feature formed by the erosion of sand (not dunes)

What is Desert pavement
500

The pile of sediment formed by deposition from ice

What is a moraine

500
The feature created when erosion and deposition happen in a former meander
What is an oxbow lake
500

The oldest actual wood in Mr. Flinner's house (closest guess)

12,000 year old spruce from a buried forest

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