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Landforms
Changes by Water or Ice
Changes by Wind
Fast or Slow Change
Movements to the Crust
100
Landform created when a glacier melts.
What is a Moraine?
100
A collapsed cave due to the weathering and erosion of sedimentary bedrock.
What is a sinkhole?
100
The process that drops sand out of the wind to create sand dunes.
What is deposition?
100
Hurricane flood surge eroding a barrier island.
What is an example of fast change?
100
Plate movements cause these (name three).
What are earthquakes, volcanoes, and mountains?
200
Landform created by water slowing and depositing sand and gravel in a river.
What is a sandbar?
200
Causes the most amount of erosion.
What is water erosion?
200
The process that moves broken down rock during a wind storm.
What is erosion?
200
Frost wedging on the side of a cliff.
What is an example of a slow change?
200
This get created when two plates push against each other.
What is a mountain?
300
Landform created by wind depositing sand.
What is a sand dune?
300
Causes the formation of a canyon.
What is water weathering (breaking down of rock) and water erosion (movement of rock)?
300
Process of breaking down rock by wind often seen in hot, arid climates.
What is weathering by wind?
300
A fast change to the earth's surface that creates seismic waves.
What is an earthquake?
300
When two plates slide against each other.
What is an earthquake?
400
A deep valley with steep sides.
What is a canyon?
400
Sheets of ice slowly moving across the Earth's surface create this landform.
What is a glacial groove?
400
How wind changes the land.
What is wind acts as a sandblaster?
400
Dripping water weathering concrete is an example.
What is slow change?
400
Causes Earthquakes and Volcanoes.
What is plate movement?
500
A mountain created from lava, ash and rocks.
What is a volcano?
500
This happens when acid rain breaks down rock.
What is chemical weathering?
500
A "storm of erosion" ... usually in the desert.
What is a sandstorm?
500
A landslide.
What is an example of a fast change?
500
Waves created during earthquakes.
What are sesimic waves?