Mass Wasting
This downslope transport of rock, regolith, ice, or snow is often caused by rainfall or seismic activity.
What is mass wasting?
These are the periodic rise and fall of sea levels caused by the gravitational pull of the moon.
What are tides?
This type of desert is located near the poles and experiences extremely cold temperatures.
What is a polar desert?
This term defines the balance between the input and output of a glacier.
This is the expected frequency of specific states of the atmosphere, ocean, and land.
What is climate?
this is the steepest angle at which rock and soil material is stable and will not move downslope.
What is the angle of repose?
These tides are the higher high tides. They occur during full and new moons when the Sun, Moon, and Earth are aligned.
What are spring tides?
What is desertification?
This ice landform is a large floating platform of ice on water. It forms where a glacier or ice sheet flows down to a coastline and onto the ocean surface.
What is an ice shelf?
This natural phenomenon occurs in our atmosphere to regulate our planet's temperature.
What is the greenhouse effect?
this type of landslide is the imperceptibly slow downward movement of material and is indicated by curved tree trunks, bent fences, titled poles, etc.
What is a creep?
These types of waves are the most common and are formed by the wind blowing over the water's surface.
What are wind-generated waves?
This landform is a depression or hollow that is caused by wind erosion.
What is a blowout?
This type of glacier movement is when the Glacier's base melts due to pressure and friction, allowing it to slide over the underlying terrain.
What is basal sliding
Volcanoes, tectonic plate movement, and variation in Earth's orbit are all examples of this type of climate change.
What is natural climate change?
This part of a landslide is the lower boundary of movement below the original ground surface.
What is the rupture surface?
this vertical or sloping structure is built parallel to the shoreline to prevent erosion and protect coastal properties.
What is a seawall?
This weathering causes dark mineralization that forms on rocks in desert environments. It's also known as desert patina or rock rust.
What is desert varnish?
Retreating glaciers can leave behind large boulders that don’t match the local bedrock. But these boulders can range in size from pebbles to massive blocks of rocks.
What is an erratic?
This information is indirect evidence using natural recorders of climate. (things like seafloor sediments, glacial ice rings, and pollen)
What is proxy data?
This landslide of about 18 million tons dammed a river, covering 40 homes and killing 43 people. This landslide was due to an unusually wet winter.
What is the Oso landslide of 2014?
This shoreline zone is always above sea level in normal conditions and onshore winds may create dunes.
What is the backshore?
Sand-sized material is transported using this process. The grains are lifted into the air and carried a short distance. When they drop and splash onto the surface, they dislodge other sand grains.
What is saltation?
These landforms are carved into mountainsides by glaciers and are bowl-sized depressions.
What is a cirque?
This scientist started measuring atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations in 1958 in an observatory located in Hawaii.
Who is Dr.Keeling?