Changing Earth's Surface
Earth's material deposited by erosion
What is Sediments?
Major agent of erosion
What is water?
Process in which sediment is laid down in new locations
The process by which water, ice, or wind moves weathered rock and soil
What is erosion?
A tiny groove in soil made by flowing water
Any one of several processes that move sediments downhill
What is a Mass Movement?
A loop like bend in the course of a river
What is a meander?
Rock that can be deposited
What is sand, pebbles, boulders, cobble, silt, and clay.
Rocks on the stream banks fall because of...
What is erosion?
A large channel in soil formed by erosion
What is a gully?
Most destructive mass movement
What is a landslide?
Water that flows over the ground surface rather than soaking into the ground
What is a runoff?
It is slower on this side of the river.
What is the stream bed?
Runoff flows in thin a layer of land.
What is sheet erosion?
A channel through which water is continually flowing downhill
What is a stream?
Rapid downhill movement of a mixture of water, rock, and soil
What is a mudslide
A type of landscape in rainy regions where there is limestone near the surface, characterized as caverns, sinkholes, and valleys
What is karst topography?
Deposition occurs on this side of river.
What is the stream bed?
It is faster on this side of a river.
What is a stream bank?
A stream that flows into a larger stream
What is a tributary?
Four types of mass movements
What is a landslide, mudslide, slump, and creep?
The five factors of the amount of runoff
What is amount of rain, vegetation, type of soil, shape of land, and how people use land?
Sediments make the delta of a river by what process.
What is deposition?
Erosion occurs on this side of a river.
What is a stream bank?
The land area from which a river and its tributaries collect their water
What is a drainage basin?