Wind Erosion/Deposition
Wave Erosion/Deposition
Stream Parts
Streams/Rivers
Glaciers/Groundwater
100
The movement of sand or other sediments by short jumps and bounces that is caused by wind or water is called
Saltation
100
What is an area of the shoreline that is made up of deposited sediment?
Beach
100
What are the bends in the image of a stream called?
Meander
100
What is deposition?
When sediment is laid down by water or a glacier
100
Give an example of a continental glacier
Greenland or Antarctica
200
These dunes are similar to transverse dunes except they lie parallel to the direction of the wind.
Longitudinal dunes
200
What is a submergent coastline?
Sea level rises or land sinks
200
What is this image a picture of?
Oxbow Lake
200
Deposition at the mouth of a river is called:
A delta
200
List one way glaciers move
Down because of gravity, basal slip, internal plastic flow
300
What type of rock(s) form due to crementation and pressure from overlaying layers that bind fragments together?
Sedimentary rocks
300
What are ways to preserve coastlines?
answers will vary
300
What is a stream that flows into a lake or into a larger stream called?
Tributary
300
The gradient of a river is steep where?
In the mountains
300
What is an aquifer?
A source of groundwater collected in permeable rock
400
any rock that is pitted, grooved, or polished by wind abrasion is called
Ventifact
400
Waves often cut deep into fractured and weak rock along the base of a cliff to form a large hole called?
Sea Cave
400
What is the beginning of a river of stream called?
Headwater(s)
400
What pattern is formed when sediment is laid down by a stream or river?
The sediment is very well sorted, large rocks on the bottom, smaller sediment on top.
400
The top level that water is saturating rocks in the ground
Water Table
500
What are the four main shapes of dunes
Transverse
Longitudinal
Barchan
Parabolic
500
What is a water current that travels near and parallel to the shoreline? Transports sand
Longshore current
500
What is the fan-shaped mass of rock material deposited at the mouth of a stream named?
Delta
500
What is the difference between porosity and permeability?
Porosity - rock or sediment that consists of open spaces
Permeability - rock or sediment that consists of open spaces that are connected
500
What are the zones of aquifers?
Zone of Aeration
Zone of Saturation