Erosion
What Is erosion?
The Movement of rocks
What Is Weathering?
Process that breaks down rocks.
What Is The Water Cycle?
The water cycle is the continuous process by which water moves from the earths to the atomsphere and back,driven by energy from the sun and gravity
What Is Mass Movement?
Any one of several processes by which gravity moves sediment downhill
Definiton of soil?
Loose material on earths surface in which plants grow.
what is the process of erosion material called
sediment
what are the 2 types of weathering
1. mechanical weathering
2. chemical weathering
Name the 5 parts of the water Cycle
1. Precipitation
2. Condensation
3. Transpiration
4. Evaporation
5.Runoff
what are the different types of mass movement
1. landslides
2. mudflows
3. slumps
4. creep
What is Gravity?
The Force that pulls you down and your bike downward
How does glacial erosion impact land?
Make lakes, Move Rocks, Flatten Surfaces.
When Ice Gets In Cracks and thaws what is that called?
Frost Wedging.
Where does most rain come?
The Ocean
What Causes Mass Movements
Gravity
What is a continental glacier?
glacier that covers much of the continent or large island
What is Oxidation
When a chemical changein which a substance combines oxygen as when iron oxiziges forming rust
How dowie the water cycle effect the life on earth?
We need rain for plants. Without Plants we die.
How dowie mass movement effect land ?
It killz plantz and destroys land
Change in state from gas to liquid.