Mass Movement
Water Erosion
Glacial Erosion
Wave Erosion
Wind Erosion
100
The process by which natural forces move weathered rock and soil from one place to another.
(Hint: This is like the fifth time you've had this as a vocabulary word.)
Erosion
100
Water that moves over land and carries particles with it.
Runoff
100
True or False: Where any large mass of ice that moves slowly over land is a glacier, a continental glacier is a glacier that covers much of a continent or large island, where a valley glacier is a long, narrow glacier that flows when show and ice build up high in a mountain valley.
True
100
A part of the shore that sticks out into the ocean.
Headland
100
The process by which wind removes surface material.
Deflation
200
Particles consisting of pieces of rock or soil, or the remains of plants and animals.
Sediment
200
The scientific name for underground water.
Groundwater
200
A period of time during which glaciers covered a large portion of earth.
Ice age
200
An area of wave-washed sediment along the coast.
Beach
200
A deposit of windblown sand.
Sand Dune
300
A process during which the agents of erosion deposit, or lay down, sediment.
Deposition
300
True or False: A stalagmite grows from the top of a cave, and a stalactite grows from the bottom.
False (bottom, top)
300
The process by which glaciers pick up rocks as they flow over land.
Plucking
300
The process by which sediment moves down a beach with the current.
Longshore drift
300
Fine, wind-deposited sediment that is smaller than sand (such as particles of clay and silt).
Loess
400
A force that pulls matter downard.
Gravity
400
List the three flows of water from smallest to largest.
Rill, Gully, Stream
400
True or False: The mixture of sediment that glaciers deposit directly on the surface is moraine, and the moraine deposited at the edge of a glacier forms a ridge called a till.
False (swap till and moraine)
400
A beach that projects like a finger out into the water.
Spit
400
True or False: Loess deposits help to form fertile farmland.
True
500
Processes that move sediment downhill.
Mass movement
500
Label each element of the river system.
1. Tributary
2. Oxbow Lake
3. Meander
4. Flood Plain
5. Delta
500
A small depression that forms when a chunk of ice is left in glacial till.
Kettle
500
Long ridges of sand parallel to shore.
Sandbar
500
An area of rock fragments in a desert caused by deflation.
Desert pavement