Vocabulary
Define Landform
What is a natural feature on the Earth's surface?
I am created from wind. Pieces of sand are eroded and deposited in a pile. What am I?
What is a sand dune?
The pieces that fall off or weathered rock and are transported by wind, water, or ice.
What is sediment?
A triangular shaped landform, where a river meets another body of water that carries sediment and deposits it in that body of water.
What is a delta?
If a river continues to pass through a canyon for a long period of time, what would happen to it?
a. nothing will happen to it
b. it will get deeper and wider
c. it will get shorter and longer
d. the canyon will fill with sediment
What is answer b?
The 3 ways that weathering and erosion occur
What are wind, water, and ice?
A landform that is a deep, narrow valley with steep sides that was carved by a river through rock.
What is a canyon?
Formation of a rock/sea arch
What is repeated water slamming into a rock, and weather and erodes it over time, then creates a hole in the rock?
What is plants, animals, and dead organisms?
A huge, thick mass of ice that forms when lots of snow builds up in a cold place over many years, and then slowly moves downhill.
What is a glacier?
A moving glacier that cuts through mountains in valley creates what type of landform?
What is a U- shaped valley?
A valley that is shaped by water is called a...
a. V-shaped valley
b. U- shaped valley
c. sand dune
d. mountain
What is a V- shaped valley?
What is the difference between weathering, erosion, and deposition?
Weathering- breaks down rocks
Erosion- moves pieces of sediment
Deposition- Sediment pieces are deposited into a pile in a new location.
Shadows in the afternoon would be located in which direction
What is the east?
When water gets into the cracks of rocks, and then freezes. Then the frozen water expands and breaks the rock. What is this process called?
What is ice wedging?
What are physical properties of matter?