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Vocab
Waves
Erosion
Water
Misc
100
What are sediments?
What is solid particles that are moved from one place to another
100
What can cause tsunamis to form?
What is underwater earthquakes.
100
If waves are constantly hitting an ocean cliff over a long period of time, what can happen?
What is the waves will wear away the base of the cliff and it can cause a landslide.
100
How were the badlands formed?
What is through erosion when moving water dug into the earths surface.
100
a beach has white sand, and another has black sand. what causes the difference in color?
What is the source of the sand and rock
200
weathering is?
What is the process of breaking down rocks into smaller pieces.
200
What is the main process that shapes earths surface?
What is water running downhill
200
What process forms a delta?
What is deposition.
200
Overflow water and sediment from a flooded river most likely go to a ?
What is floodplain.
200
What causes sand dunes to form?
What is wind.
300
What causes waves?
What is tectonic activity such as volcanoes, earthquakes, and landslides along coasts or under water.
300
In the ocean where is wave energy the strongest?
What is at the waters surface
300
Glaciers formed which body of water?
What is the great lakes.
300
a longshore current can move sediment from the shoreline to an area in the water. what kind of landform does this create?
What is a sandbar
300
Why do farmers plant cover crops?
What is to reduce soil erosion. protect the topsoil
400
What is the process of adding sediments to a new place after being carried from another place.
What is deposition.
400
What happens to a waves amplitude when strong winds blow over the oceans surface?
What is the amplitude greatly increases
400
mineral deposits in lakes and ocean floors are formed when? a.dissolved minerals settle out of the water., B. minerals in rainfall settle in lakes and oceans. or C. tectonics plates under lakes and oceans shift.
a. What is dissolved minerals settle out of the water.
400
The land drained by a river is called?
What is a drainage basin.
400
When plant roots grow into cracks and make them larger what is happening?
What is mechanical weathering.
500
Describe Mechanical weathering and Chemical weathering, what is one way they are similar and one way they are different.
What is mechanical is physical breaking down: breaking down rocks into smaller pieces by wind, water, or ice. chemical changes the make up of the minerals in the rock:react with substances/chemicals in the air and rain.
500
What are the four parts of a wave?
What is trough, crest, wavelength, amplitude
500
Explain why a river deposits heavier sediments first and lighter sediments later.
What is heavier sediments are deposited first because the water has more energy and can carry heavier sediments before it slows down. as the water slows it can carry less and lighter sediments
500
Name two forces that can change coastal landforms and give examples of each.
What is waves-carry sediments that can wear down landforms, wind-blows loose sand into piles called dunes
500
What is an important difference between erosion and weathering?
What is erosion involves movement of materials from one place to another.