Running like a River
Ice Ice Baby
Erosion
Blow Me Over
Remember When
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 force of erosion most likely responible for this land formation
What is wind?
100
Dunes are created by this agent of erosion
What is wind?
100
The rock type that forms in layers through compaction and cementation
What is sedimentary?
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
How this large rock known as an erratic got to its present location
What is transported by a glacier?
200
The side of a dune opposite the wind
What is the slipface?
200
Heat and pressure form these types of rocks that have "change" as part of their name
What is metamorphic?
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
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
Removal of loose material from Earth's surface by wind
What is deflation?
300
These rocks form either on the Earth's surface or deep within from molten rock
What is igneous?
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 Finger Lakes and the Great Lakes were both formed by this force of erosion.
What are glaciers or continential ice sheets?
400
Thick deposits of wind-blown sand
What is loess?
400
The mineral that reacts to acid - present in both limestone and marble
What is calcite?
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 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
Abrasion is an example of what type of weathering, mechanical or chemical?
What is mechanical weathering?
500
The scientific name for a scientist who studies rocks.
What is a geologist?