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Weathering, Soil and Erosion
Volcanoes
Surface Water
Groundwater
Earthquakes
100
River carries silt to the ocean
What is example of erosion
100
shield volcano
What is type of volcano with broad base and gently sloping sides
100
limestone and marble
What is types of bedrock dissolved most easily by running water
100
percent of a material's volume that is pore space
What is porosity
100
p waves
What is the first wave sent out by an earthquake
200
Cracking of concrete sidewalks
What is mechanical weathering
200
lava forms underwater
What is pillow lava
200
volume of water flowing past a given point in a stream
What is the discharge of a stream
200
cracks and fissures
What is the reason water may pass through granite
200
Richter Scale
What is used to describe the strength of an earthquake
300
Gravity
What is the cause of mass movement
300
Temperature, density and pressure
What is the formation of magma dependent upon
300
stream piracy
What is an important factor for headward erosion
300
zone of saturation
What is the top of the water table called
300
epicenter
What is the area directly above the focus called
400
Makes the water muddy
What is suspension of a river
400
the ability of resistance to flow
What is viscosity
400
the groundwater that seeps into it
What is the area where most of the material a rivers carries in solution come from
400
into the capillary fringe
What is it called where water rises from the water table during capillary action
400
tsunami
What is the ocean wave called as a result of an underwater earthquake
500
Sttepness of slope down which the stream travels
What is a factor that affects the velocity of a stream
500
dense superheated cloud of gases and materials that moves rapidly downhill from an erupting volcano
What is pyroclastic flow
500
increase the stream's competence and capacity
What is a large increase in stream velocity likely to do
500
groundwater removal
What is the cause of subsidence
500
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What is the number of seismograph stations needed to locate the epicenter of an earthquake