Erosion is the process of carrying away ______ , which will later be _______ by deposition.
sediments, deposited
100
Wind is the cause, what is the effect?
a. moraine
b. sand dune
c. delta
what is B sand dune
100
The largest river in the United States that deposits sediment into the Gulf of Mexico.
What is the Mississippi River?
200
What is an erratic?
a large boulder deposited by a glacier
200
What are the 2 different types of weathering?
chemical and physical
200
The low area between mountains or hills.
valley
200
Glacier is the cause, what is the effect?
a. moraine
b. sand dune
c. delta
What is A. moraine?
200
Which natural factors does NOT change Earth's surface?
a. wind
b. water
c. plants
d. pollution
What is pollution?
300
a natural feature of earths surface
What is a landform
300
Which of the following is NOT a cause of weathering?
A) Water freezes in a crack of a rock
B) A plant grows in a crack of a rock
C) A river carries sand and sediment downstream
D) Sand blowing against a rock
What is C-a river carries sand and sediment downstream
300
What is the difference between physical and chemical weathering?
Physical weathering is the physical breaking down of rock were as chemical weathering is the breaking down of rock due to chemical changes.
300
The Grand Canyon was formed by this.
What is the Colorado River?
300
Glaciers shape valleys into a __ shape.
What is U shaped
400
The elevations of a landform shown on a map
What is topography
400
A canyon is most likely formed by which of the following:
A) earthquake
B) ice erosion
C) wind erosion
D) water erosion
What is D - water erosion
400
Which is the correct order for the processes listed below:
a) erosion, deposition, weathering
b) deposition, erosion, weathering
c)weathering, deposition, erosion
d)weathering, erosion, deposition
What is weathering, erosion and deposition (D)
400
How are snowdrifts and sand dunes form in similar ways?
What is both are made of small pieces of material deposited by the wind
400
Which of these does a plain have?
a) deep valleys
b) highlands
c) mostly flat land
d) steep cliffs
What is c) mostly flat land
500
The process of breaking down or wearing away rock.
What is weathering
500
A canyon is formed when what type of weathering breaks down the rock(hint rivers usually create canyons)
What is physical weathering (caused by water)
500
How are wind erosion and water erosion alike?
What is both can pick up sediment and deposit it in new locations
500
The process of sediment falling out of the water stream and settling down.
What is deposition?
500
What pulls all objects from higher places to lower places?