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Mass Movement
Wind
Water
Waves
Glaciers
100
One large mass of rock moves down a mountain.
What is a slump?
100
Fine particles that are picked up by wind and deposited into a pile.
What is loess?
100
When sediment builds up at the end of a river due to the river slowing down.
What is a delta?
100
Events leading up to the formation of a sea stack.
What is headland, sea cave, sea arch, sea pillar or sea stack?
100
When a big piece of ice falls off of a glacier.
What is calving?
200
A dry, broken up mass of land that flows downhill quickly.
What is a landslide?
200
Process of polishing rocks.
Abrasion.
200
Formation of this water features occurs when sediment builds up on one end of a meander in a river.
What is an oxbow lake?
200
This drift slows down on a curve depositing sediment to create a spit.
What is a Longshore Drift?
200
A bowl-shaped depression caused by a glacier.
What is a cirque?
300
Slow, downhill mass movement of rock and soil caused by gravity.
What is a creep?
300
Process of wind removing surface materials.
What is deflation?
300
Large groove or channel in the soil that carries runoff.
What is a gully?
300
Eroded feature that is created when a Sea Arch collapses.
What is Sea Pillar/Sea Stack?
300
Plucking and abrasion.
What are two ways glaciers erode the land?
400
Agents of erosion deposit, or lay down sediment.
What is deposition?
400
Wind blown area that exposes rocky material.
What is desert pavement?
400
Vegetation, amount of rainfall, slope of land, soil type and human use all contribute to this.
What is the runoff rate of water over land?
400
Storm waves pile up large masses of sand above sea level. Many people build homes on these deposits, but be careful, someday they may be washed away.
What is a barrier beach?
400
Glacier deposits a mound or a ridge at the end of the glacier as the glacier recedes.
What is a moraine?
500
Consists of pieces of rocks and or soil, the remains of plants and animals.
What is sediment?
500
Shape of sand dunes are determined by three factors.
What is direction of wind, amount of sand, and presence of plants?
500
Sinkholes are prevalent when soft rock (limestone) is close to the surface. Geologist dub sink holes this term.
What is Karst Topography.
500
Wave cut cliffs are created by.
What is a wave?
500
This forms when level of the sea rises, filling a u-shaped valley once cut by a glacier.
What is a fiord?