Karst Processes
What is a type of landscape where the dissolving of the bedrock has created sinkholes, sinking streams, caves and springs
What is Karst?
This region type is described as having less than 10 inches of rain per year.
What is Arid?
These are perennial large, slowing-moving masses of ice that form on land through the compression of snow overtime.
What are Glaciers?
This is divided into two zones, the Backshore and the Foreshore.
What is the shore?
This Aquifer resides under 8 different US States
What is the Ogallala Aquifer?
A Karst lifecycle is broken into three distinct steps, this, Voids & Collapses, and Coverage.
What is Infiltration?
This is a slender isolated column of rock, and the erosional remnant of the butte.
What is a spire?
This is a landscape that undergoes seasonal thawing and freezing.
What is periglacial?
This is formed by constant erosion and deposition due to both biological and physical processes.
What is the coast?
Over-pumping of groundwater can lead to this.
What is land subsidence?
This is a depression formed by surface collapse due to the bedrock weathering away underneath.
What is a sinkhole?
These areas are characterized by dry terrain, where softer sedimentary rocks and clay soils have been heavily eroded.
What are the Badlands?
This type of glacier is close to the melting point all year round.
What is Temperate?
This is a sandy landform that is connected to the mainland and extends into the sea.
What is a Spit?
This is a shallow, short-lived lake that forms where water drains into basics and evaporates quickly.
What is a Playas
This describes the amount of void space in a material.
What is porosity?
Erosion, transportation and deposition are the three main these.
What are wind processes?
This is where more ice is lost than gained over a year on a glacier.
What is an ablation zone?
The living shoreline is an example of what coastal erosion prevention practice?
What is soft engineering?
This is a dome-shaped hill with a core of ice.
What is a pingo?
The three basic properties of this are porosity, permeability, and confining layers.
What is aquifers?
This wind zone is responsible for the boom in exploration by sea.
What are the Trade Winds?
This surface types can be observed as the expansion and contraction of soils in periglacial regions.
What is patterned ground?
This is controlled by the gravitational force of the sun and moon.
What are tides?
This extends from the toe of the shoreface to the shelf break where a steep inclined slope begins.
What is the continental shelf?