Running like a River
Ice Ice Baby
Hot or Not
Erosion
Fun Facts
100
This geographic feature forms at the mouth of a river, and is the build-up of sediment usually in a triangular shape
What is a delta?
100
The shape of a valley formed by a glacier
What is U-shaped?
100
The major force of erosion in a desert
What is wind?
100
The force of erosion most likely responible for this land formation
What is wind?
100
The percentage of Earth that is desert
What is 1/3?
200
In a meandering (curvy) stream, this is where erosion occurs in a curve.
What is the cutbank?
200
What we had left in the sand table after our "glacier" melted
What is an outwash plain?
200
The definition of a desert
What is any place that receives less than 10 inches of precipitation a year.
200
How this large rock known as an erratic got to its present location
What is transported by a glacier?
200
An adaptation of many animals living in hot deserts so they avoid the hot sun all together
What is being nocturnal?
300
Smaller rivers or steams that feed into a larger river
What are tributaries?
300
The pile of rock and sediment pushed by and dumped at the end of a glacier
What is a moraine?
300
Deserts often form on one side of these large geographic features because as moist air rises, it cools and condenses, resulting in a "rain shadow"
What are mountains?
300
As the velocity and volume of water in a river increases, the size of the sediment it can transport (increases or decreases)
What is increases?
300
The world's largest hot desert is on this continent
What is the Sahara of Africa?
400
The shape of a valley formed by a river
What is V-shaped?
400
a lake formed when a chunk of glacial ice is buried by sediment and then melts, forming a depression that fills with water
What is a kettle lake?
400
The process of semi-arid land becoming desert due to deforestation, increased grazing by farm animals, and/or climate change.
What is Desertification?
400
The Finger Lakes and the Great Lakes were both formed by this force of erosion.
What are glaciers or continential ice sheets?
400
The world's largest desert is mostly located on this continent, and has no permanant human residents
What is Antartica?
500
The area covered with water when due to a sudden increase in volume a river or stream overflows its banks
What is the floodplain?
500
Scratches on a rock that tell us the direction a glacier was moving
What are striations?
500
The latitudes where you are most likely to find deserts
30 degrees North and South and 90 degrees North and South
500
The hills and valleys throughout the Southern Tier and Catskill region were all formed by this agent of erosion.
What is running water or rivers/streams?
500
This word describes animals and people who have to move often to find enough food and water to survive as is the case in desert environments.
What is nomadic?