The Basics
The movement of sediment from one location to another.
What is Erosion?)
This powerful agent of erosion can move huge amounts of soil during floods or storms.
What is Flowing Water?
The specific process of breaking rock down into smaller pieces.
What is Weathering?
This type of rock, common in Florida, is easily dissolved by acidic water.
What is Limestone?
Planting this is one of the best ways to hold soil together with roots.
What is Vegetation?
Small pieces of rock or other hard material that have broken down over time.
What is Sediment?
Along the coast, these carry away bits of sediment from dunes and cliffs.
What are Waves?
This occurs when water enters cracks in rocks, freezes, and expands.
What is the Freeze-Thaw cycle?
A hole in the ground that forms when the surface collapses into a hollow space below.
What is a Sinkhole?
Engineers build these to physically block soil from sliding off a slope.
What is a Retaining Wall?
Erosion is usually a slow process, but it can lead to these types of sudden movements.
What are Landslides/Hazards?)
This atmospheric agent can blow loose sediment away in dry areas.
What is Wind?
This type of weathering happens when acidic water dissolves minerals in rock.
What is Chemical Weathering?
These large underground spaces are created when acidic water eats away at rock over long periods.
What are Caves/Caverns?
A procedure used by geologists to examine and measure features of an area of land.
What is a Survey?
This force pulls soil and sediment downhill on steep slopes.
What is Gravity?
This natural disaster can strip away plants, making soil more vulnerable to erosion.
What is a Wildfire?
This type of weathering is caused by physical forces like hitting or grinding.
What is Mechanical/Physical Weathering?
Rainwater becomes slightly acidic by mixing with this gas in the atmosphere.
What is Carbon Dioxide?
These are put up by communities to warn people of cliff or road erosion.
What are Warning Signs?
True or False: Animal activity (like burrowing) can be an agent of erosion.
What is True?
These frozen "rivers of ice" are massive agents that can carve out entire valleys.
What are Glaciers?
Growing plant roots can cause weathering by doing this to rock cracks.
What is Prying them apart?
This is the specific term for the land's surface collapsing because of a lack of support underneath.
What is Subsidence?
This material is sometimes laid down on hillsides to minimize erosion during construction.
What is Plastic/Netting?