This agent of erosion can both chemically and mechanically break down materials.
What is water?
100
What is the underlying cause of all mass movements?
What is gravity?
100
This process describes when water is released from plants into the air.
What is transpiration?
100
What type of flood occurs because cement cannot absorb water?
What is and urban flood?
100
Name two ways that excess nitrogen and phosphorous can enter an aquatic system.
What is manure, fertilizers, human waste.
200
Exfoliation, ice wedging, and wind weathering are all examples of what type of weathering?
What is mechanical/physical weathering?
200
What is the difference between a landslide and a mudslide?
What is water?
200
When it rains when soil is saturated _________ occurs.
What is runoff?
200
The two factors that control flooding?
What is intensity and duration?
200
What is the difference between soil an dirt?
What is organic materials?
300
Rust is an example of what type of chemical weathering?
What is oxidation?
300
What type of mass movement often leaves trees in a dent shape?
What is soil creep?
300
This process in the water cycle cleans and purifies water.
What is percolation?
300
This type of flood occurred after hurricane Sandy struck New York.
What is a coastal flood?
300
Bacteria break down dead plants and use up the oxygen in water during what process?
What is eutrophication?
400
How does surface area impact the weathering of materials?
Small pieces have more surface area and weather faster? Or larger pieces have less and weather slower.
400
What type of mass movement occurs when material moves down like a block?
What is a slump?
400
This process describes when water hits the surface of the earth and is absorbed into the ground.
What is infiltration?
400
This type of flood might occur when a dam or levee fails.
What is a flash flood?
400
What percentage (roughly) of water on Earth is available for humans to use?
What is less than 1%?
500
Cleopatra's needle was brought to the US from Egypt in 1883. It is now almost impossible to read the hieroglyphs on this monument due to what type of chemical weathering?
What is carbonation?
500
Name two mass movements that happen suddenly?
What is landslide, mudslide, sinkhole?
500
Where on earth does evaporation occur at the fastest rate?
What is the ocean?
500
Three reasons why wetlands are important?
What is flood prevention, habitat for animals, filter pollution.
500
Water is available for humans to use in which three areas of Earth?