The break dowm of rockby weathering agents such as wind, water ice,and plant roots.
What is mechanical weathering?
100
______ are powerfulagents of both weathering and erosion.
What is Glaciers?
100
______ makes minerals, rocks, and land forms.
What are Constructive forces?
100
___________ shows change in elevation.
A) Contour maps
B) Contour intervals
C) Contour lines
D)contour faults
What is C)Contour lines?
100
Sediment that is left behind by streams of glacial meltwater is __________.
What is stratified drift?
200
Liquid water seeps out of rock and freezes.
What is Frost wedging?
200
Glaciers can Weather layers of rock by grinding rock into fine _____________ or ____________________
What is sediments and plucking out huge chunks?
200
_________ breakdown of landforms, rocks, and minerals.
What are destructive forces?
200
difference in elevation betweeen contour LINES is called ______________.
A)Contour lines
B)Cotour maps
C)Contour intervals
What is C)?
200
when glaciers retreat they leave behind a long ridge of stratified drift called an ____________.
A)kame
B)esker
C)morraine
What is B) Esker
300
plants can creep into cracks in rocks and grow, in doing so the plant can____ the rock.
What is Split?
300
___________are structures made of till.
What are Morraines?
300
Two examples of destructive forces are _________ and_________.
What is weathering and erosion?
300
contour lines never end they _______ back with themselves on or off the map.
What is Connect?
400
Glaciers moving though mountains and breaking down rocks is and example of mechanical weathering. Another example of Mechanical weathering would be __________________.
What is plants creep into rocks and cause the rocks to split apart.
400
Morraines that are 30m tall and 10km wide are called _________ _______________.
What are Terminal Morraines?
400
A river can change its path and carve it through solid ________.
What is Rock
400
The closer the lines are together the steeper the ___________ is.
What is Elevation?
500
In frost wedging water seeps through cracks in rocks then freezes. When the water freezes it expands. When the water expands the ____________________.
What is the rock will begin to crack more and eventually break, the frozen water inside it will melt back into a liquid?
500
Geologists have evidence that huge glaciers pushed into New Jersey. This happened during _________ ice ages and over ___________ of years.
What is three and millions?
500
Crustal deformation caused by ___________,is _______________ because it forms volcanoes it also forms __________ and ___________ rocks.
What are Plate Tectonics, Constructive, Igneous, and Metamorphic?
500
In the last 50 years technology has ________ the ability of geographers to map the earths surface.and exampl would be the ________________.(GPS)