What is the greatest force of weathering an erosion?
What is water
100
What is a v shaped landform called?
What is a canyon
100
What are the three types of sedimentary rock found in the Grand Canyon?
What is shale, limestone, sandstone
100
What was the whole point of the stream table lab?
What is to find out how the Grand Canyon was formed
100
Redwall is what type of stone?
What is limestone
200
What 2 main forces make landslides?
What is water and gravity
200
What is a low are between mountains called?
What is a valley
200
What was the Grand Canyon before it became the Grand Canyon?
What is the Colorado Plateau
200
What are the 2 different kinds of stream bed material and what do these names mean?
Homogenous and heterogenous. Homogenous means the same and heterogenous means different
200
What is chemical weathering?
Chemicals breaking down rock
300
What is weathering?
What is breaking down rock
300
What is the proper landform word for a curve in the river?
What is a meander
300
What was the Grand Canyon carved by?
What is the Colorado River
300
What is the definition of a model? What is an example of a model?
Model-a replica of something, normally smaller and/or a representation of an object or system that is normally to big or to small to explore
Example- Grand Canyon
300
Name all the types of sandstone talked about in this chapter/lesson
What is Supia and Coconio
400
What is erosion?
What is carrying sediment away
400
What is the definition of a floodplain?
The land that gets covered by water from a stream or river during a flood
400
What is the weakest rock, hardest rock, and meduim rock?
weakest-shale
hardest-limestone
medium-sandstone
400
How would you describe the canyon and delta if the slope was a 20 degree angle?
Canyon-deep,jagged,wide,big,excetera
Delta-wide,big,lots of sediment,excetera
400
What is phisical weathering?
What is wind,water, ice, natural forces breaking down rock.
500
What is the process of erosion?
Sediment is carried away and the sediment will rub against other rocks making them erode away
500
What is the end of the river called? What is it normally shaped like?
What is a delta, it is shaped like a fan
500
Who explored the Grand Canyon with only one arm?
What is John Wesley Powell
500
How would you describe a pice of sand on a stream tabel with a slope of 10 degrees, but a flow of a flood?
It would be normal pace. Fast, but not too fast. Fast, but not too slow.