Continual Process of Change
Environments where sediment is transported and deposited quickly.
What is high energy environments?
pg-181
A broad, C-shaped curve in a stream.
What is a meander?
pg-188
A type of mass wasting where blocks of material move down slope on a curved surface.
What is slump?
pg-197
______ contain about two-thirds of all the freshwater on Earth.
What is Glaciers?
pg-200
Landforms Created by ______ are often flat and low-lying.
What is deposition?
pg-183
The factors that effect the rate of erosion.
What is weather, climate, topography, and type of rock?
pg-179
Structures that reduce erosion on beaches.
What is retaining walls, or groins?
pg-191
Commonly occurs when soil on a hillside is soaked with rainwater.
What is Mass Wasting?
pg-196
Form in mountains and flow downhill.
What is Alpine Glaciers?
pg-199
Water traveling in a river ca slow down due to _____.
What is friction?
pg-183
The laying down or settling of eroded material.
What is Deposition?
pg-181
Active systems that erode land and transport sediment.
What is streams?
pg-188
The presence of thick ____ on a slope reduces the likelihood of a mass Wasting event.
What is Vegetation?
pg-196
A sharp peak formed when several glaciers descend from the top of the same mountain.
What is a horn?
pg-199
Long, narrow deposits.
What is eskers, moraines?
pg-183
The separating of items into groups according to one or more properties.
What is sorting?
pg-180
A current that flows parallel to the shoreline.
What is longshore currents?
pg-189
The dominant cause of movement in mass wasting.
What is gravity?
pg-196
Layered sediment deposited by streams of water that flows from a melting glacier.
What is Outwash?
pg-200
______ produces landforms that are often tall and jagged.
What is erosion?
pg-183
Water, wind, glaciers, and gravity are apart of this agent.
What is agents of erosion?
pg-179
When carbon dioxide in the air mixes with rainwater.
What is acid rain?
pg-189
Material moves too slowly to be noticeable, causing trees and other objects to lean over.
What is creep?
pg-197
What is distinctive erosional features?
pg-199
Can produce ice-carved features in mountains.
What is Glacial Erosion?
pg-182