Weathering
Weathering is
What is the breakdown of rocks into sediments?
Erosion is
What is the process by which sediments are obtained and transported to other places?
Another word for deposition
What is sedimentation?
The topography and composition of a landscape are determined by
What is climate, local bedrock, geological structure and human activities?
Glaciers are
What is accumulatione of snow and ice large enough to survive the summer melt?
Any event that will cause a rock to crack or break (changes the size of shape of a rock).
What is Physical Weathering?
Streams, glaciers, waves, currents, wind, gravity, human or plant activity are examples of
What is Agents of Erosion?
Order of Deposition by particle size
What is large particles settle first, colloids second and ionic compounds last?
Mountains are composed of
What is mostly non-sedimentary rocks?
Ridges of sand deposited in tunnels under the ice.
What are eskers?
Abrasion is
What is when rocks carried along a stream bump and rub against one another?
The size of sedimentary particles carried along the bottom of faster streams.
What is larger particles?
Relationship between the rate of settling and the settling time.
What is Indirect?
New York State’s Catskills are classified as this type of landscape region.
What is a mountain?
A low hill composed of unsorted sediments that have mixed grain sizes was probably deposited by
What is a glacier?
Chemical weathering of rocks occurs most rapidly in a climate that is
What is hot and humid?
Winds blow sand or silt grains against rocks or other objects.
What is Sand blasting?
The rock particle which will remain suspended in water for the longest time
What is clay?
What is the Erie-Ontario Lowlands?
Alpine Glaciers form
What is u-shaped valleys?
Solid bedrock is changed to soil primarily by the process of
What is weathering?
What is Erosion by water?
How dissolved materials are carried in a river.
What is in solution?
New York State’s generalized landscape regions are identified primarily on the basis of
What is elevation and bedrock structure?
Useful in determining the direction of glacial movement.
What are drumlins?