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Earth's Features
Weathering and
Erosion
How Water Affects Earth Features
Wave Energy
Wave Characteristics
100
The solid particles that are moved from one place to another.
What is sediment?
100
The process of breaking down rock into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
100
The adding of sediments to a new place after being carried from another place.
What is deposition?
100
The distance from crest to crest or trough to trough.
What is wavelength
100
The highest part of the wave.
What is the crest?
200
Carved out by glaciers on the move.
What is how many of our lakes are formed?
200
Rock is broken down but the minerals that make up the rock do not change.
What is mechanical weathering?
200
A part of the landscape that is likely to receive the overflow of water and sediment from flooded rivers.
What is a floodplain?
200
They are carried in and passed along in waves.
What are sediments and dissolved minerals?
200
The lowest part of the wave.
What is the trough?
300
The roots of plants help hold this in place.
What is soil?
300
Process that changes the mineral make up of rock
What is chemical weathering?
300
Ocean plants and animals use some of the dissolved minerals to carry on life processes.
What is the importance of rivers carrying dissovled minerals to the ocean?
300
These are caused by wind or tectonic activity such as volcanoes, earthquakes and landslides.
What are waves?
300
The distance from the point that the water is at rest to the crest or the trough.
What is wave amplitude?
400
Farmers learned better farming methods and the importance of soil conservation from this tragic event.
What is the Dust Bowl?
400
Movement of materials from Earth's surface through the action of wind, water, and ice.
What is erosion?
400
Deposition of fine sediments creates landforms called ______________.
What are river deltas?
400
The only thing that is actually moving when you see waves.
What is energy?
400
The movement of water that can move materials from the shoreline to an area of water away from the shore. Sandbars result from this movement.
What is a longshore current?
500
Rust forming on metal left out in the weather is an example of this.
What is chemical weathering?
500
The ways that soil and sediment is transferred.
What is wind, water, ice and gravity?
500
Rivers carry an estimated 4 billion tons of this dissolved mineral to the oceans each year?
What is salt?
500
The size of the waves depends on this.
What is the speed of the wind?
500
Quiet places that where sand, rock, or islands separate the water body from the open ocean.
What is a lagoon?