TECTONIC
A large crater that fills in with water.
What is a caldera?
It rises and condenses.
What does air do when it hits a mountain?
When a river decides to find a shorter route and leaves behind a horse shoe shaped scar.
What is an ox-bow lake?
The shape does a glacial valley look like?
What is a U-shaped valley?
An area at the back of the beach often raised and covered in coastal vegetation.
What is a dune?
Where two tectonic plates are pushing against each other.
What is converging plates?
It expands.
What happens to water when it freezes?
The shape formed in a valley by water erosion.
What is a V-shaped valley?
A long and often narrow lake left behind post glaciation.
What is a finger lake?
A thin strip of sand that covers a river mouth.
What is a spit?
An elongated set of mountains or hills caused by tectonic uplift.
What are fold mountains?
When a warmer or colder air mass meet each other.
What is a front?
A feature that forms when eroded material spills out of a narrow valley and then spreads out on flatter land.
What is a an alluvial fan?
The material found at the front, sides and middle of a glacier.
What is moraine?
The name given to the rushing water after a wave has broken.
What is swash?
A cloud of ash, gas, and rock fragments.
What is a pyroclastic flow?
The warm, dry and often strong wind that descends on the leeward side.
What is a fohn wind? (Nor-Wester in NZ).
A large build up of material on the inside of a river bend.
What is a point bar?
Where a stream is cut off by an advancing glacier and falls vertically to the valley floor.
What is a hanging valley?
A pillar of rock no longer attached to the mainland.
What is a stack?
A mound or hill that is a result of volcanic activity oozing lava.
What is a rhyolite dome?
Ice crystals that form when water vapor in the clouds freezes directly onto an ice nucleus at temperatures below freezing. As these crystals fall, they grow by collecting more water vapor.
How does snow form?
It creates caves and sink holes.
What does water do to limestone landscapes?
Forms when 3 cirques cut back into a mountain.
What is a horned peak?
When a spit connects to an island.
What is a tombolo?