Weathering, Erosion and Soils
Involves the removal of weathered material.
What is Erosion?
The water cycle is powered by.
What is radiant energy?
What is 120 miles?
This force is what causes landforms to go downslope.
What is gravity?
A narrow, high-altitude band of strong winds.
What is a jet stream?
It is especially important as part of a soil; to hold it together and retain water.
What is clay?
The process by which water returns to the atmosphere through plants leaves.
What is transpiration?
The name of the most prevalent salt in the Oceans.
What is Sodium Chloride?
This substance causes mass movement to either not happen or speed up downhill.
What is water?
The phase change of a substance from a liquid to a gas.
What is evaporation?
This process helps replenish top soil and adds nutrients to the soil.
What is crop rotation?
The type of basin drainage pattern that looks like tree limbs.
What is dendritic?
Ppt stands for what.
What is parts per thousand?
This type of mass movement happens usually through valleys or crevices.
What is debris flow?
The transfer of energy by electromagnetic waves.
What is radiation?
These three plants were called "the three Sisters" by Native Americans.
What is corn, beans and squash?
A type of water source that provides 50% of our water supply for irrigation and drinking.
Groundwater
This current is warm, flows North east along the Atlantic and speeds along at 5 mph.
What is the Gulf Stream?
This process of picking up rocks by glaciers is called.
What is plucking?
Thin, wispy clouds composed mainly of ice crystals because they are at a high altitude.
What are Cirrus clouds?
Three agents of erosion
What are water, wind and ice?
The measure of the ability for water to move through rock or sediment.
What is permeabiltiy?
These are the main two benefits of the Ocean for humanity.
What are food and transportation?
The process of returning of water under a wave.
What is undertow?
Puffy low-level clouds that usually form as individual, domes cottony masses.
What are Cumulus clouds?