Erosion
What is the process of breaking down rock into smaller pieces?
Weathering, erosion or deposition?
Weathering
Is there more fresh water or salt water on Earth?
Salt Water
What is a slide of a large mass of dirt and rock down a mountain or cliff?
Landslide
What is a deep valley with steep sides often carved by a river?
Canyon
How are beaches formed?
Weathered rock pieces are deposited on the shore by waves.
What is the moving of weathered material?
Weathering, erosion, or deposition
Erosion
What is a large mass of moving ice?
Glacier
What is a landslide that occurs when loose soil and rock are mixed with water?
Mudslide
What is a ridge of sand created by the wind?
Sand dune
This is what happens to erosion when the slope of a hill is steep.
There is more erosion/ speeds up erosion
What is the dropping of sediment into a new location?
Deposition
What is a large area of flat land near a river that often floods and contains fertile soil?
Floodplain
What is a natural shape or feature of land?
Landform
What is a large area of flat land elevated high above sea level?
Plateau
What happens to erosion when there is lots of vegetation on a hill?
It slows erosion/ There is less erosion
What is a triangular shaped area of land formed by deposition at the mouth of a river?
Delta
What is an artificial waterway for boats or for irrigation of land?
Canal
What is the force responsible erosion?
Water, wind, and gravity
What is a long depression in the land that usually contains a river?
Valley
This is the type of erosion you would see most in the desert.
Wind erosion
What are small pieces of weathered rock such as gravel, sand and pebbles?
Sediment
This is responsible for carving the Grand Canyon?
Water
Bonus points for Colorado River
What is an example of weather?
Ice wedging, abrasion, wind, and water
How can be show the land features on Earth?
Map
What is one type of rock?
Sedimentary, igneous, or metaphoric