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Changing Surface
Water Erosion
Wave Erosion
Wind Erosion
Glaceiers
100
The type of mass movement can result in telephone poles moving to odd angles
What is creep?
100
A channel which water is continually flowing down a slope.
What is Stream?
100
Name two ways that waves erode the land.
What are impact and abrasion?
100
A deposit of wind -blown sand.
What is sand dune.
100
The till deposited at the edge of a glacier that forms a ridge.
What is moraine?
200
The force that pulls rock and soil down slopes
What is gravity?
200
Water that moves the Earth's surface.
What is runoff?
200
The part of the shore that sticks out in the ocean.
What is headland?
200
Name two types of deposit form by wind erosion.
What are sand dunes and loess deposit?
200
A glacier forms in an area where more snowfalls than
What is melts?
300
This occurs when the agents of erosion deposit sediment
What is deposition?
300
The river spreads out and erodes the land forming a wide river valley.
What is flood plain?
300
The area of wave-washed sand along the coast?
What is beach?
300
This kind of wind erosion polishes rocks and causes little erosion.
What is abrasion?
300
The formation of Yosemite Valley in the Sierra Nevada was the result of this type of erosion?
What is glacial erosion?
400
Landslides and slump are forms of
What is mass movement
400
It forms as a river widen from side to side eroding outer banks of bends and depositing sediment on the inner bank of bends.
What is meander?
400
The process in which beach sediment is moved down the beach with the current.
What is a longshore drift?
400
The process in which wind removes surface material.
What is deflation?
400
Name the type of ersion were the glacier flows over rock, breaking off piece and the rock fragments freeze to the bottom of the glacier.
What is plucking?
500
This type of mass movement id a mixture of water, rock and soil moves rapidly downhill.
What is mudslide?
500
A river cut off from a river by deposition of sediment.
What is Oxbow Lake?
500
Name four landforms createdc by wave erosion.
What are Sea cave, sea arch, sea stack and wave-cut cliff
500
The sediment that is finer than sand.
What is loess?
500
A small depression that forms when a chunk of ice is left in glacial till, which can create small lake when the continental glacial melts.
What is Kettle?