Erosion and Deposition
Three types of erosion
What is wind, water, and ice?
Rapid change that deposits silt
What is a flood?
Uncultivatable land
What are badlands?
Muddy, slow, and wide; clear and fast-moving
What are the two sections of the Mississippi?
It is called ____1 when underground and ____2 when above ground
What is magma1 and lava2?
Two landforms created by erosion and deposition
What is an alluvial fan and a delta?
The San Andreas fault is what caused this
What is an earthquake?
A crack in the Earth's crust
What is a fault?
A place in a river where the water must flow over obstructions such as rocks
What is the rapids?
Reason why people want to live near volcanoes
What is fertile soil?
How erosion and deposition affect people
What is rapid change harming humans?
Levees and dams are constructed to prevent this
What is a flood?
It is shaped like a V if a river runs through and shaped like a U if a glacier came through
What is a valley?
The course a stream follows; the deepest part of a river, stream, or harbor
What is a channel?
Three signs a volcano might erupt
What is the ground shaking, plumes of smoke rising from the crater, and water and soil bubbling?
Three ways to prevent erosion and deposition
What is making dams and levees, plowing in the opposite direction of the wind, and having something growing at all times?
A tumbling of sediment down a slope
What is a landslide?
The landform of which means table
What is a mesa?
Three reasons why we control rivers
What is hydroelectric power, navigation, and control?
The three types of volcanoes
What are shield volcanoes, composite volcanoes, and cinder cones?
A beach is created by _____ (explain the whole process)
What is rocks falling off a cliff through erosion; deposition depositing them on a beach?
Four types of rapid change
What are volcanoes, floods, earthquakes, and landslides?
Rocks and sediments deposited through a glacier's movement
What is a moraine?
An example of this is the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
What are tributaries?
Why volcanoes form
What is a crack in the crust when plates collide?