Weathering and Soil
What is the principle that states that the same geological processes that operate today also operated in the past?
What is the principle of uniformitarianism?
What process moves sediment around?
What is Erosion?
Water that flows over the ground surface and carries sediment is what?
What is runoff?
Any large mass of ice that moves slowly over land is called?
What are Glaciers?
The process that chemically breaks down rocks?
What is Chemical Weathering?
What is Abrasion
A wide sloping deposit of sediment formed where a stream leaves a mountain range is called?
What is an Alluvial fan?
The process in which glaciers pick up rocks as it moves over land?
What is plucking?
What process breaks down rock and other substances by heat, cold, water, ice and gasses?
What is weathering?
Mass Movements may be caused by what?
What are natural disasters?
What are the areas where sediment is deposited after a river flows into an ocean or a lake?
What is a Delta?
Movement of water and sediment down a beach caused by waves coming into the shore at an angle are
What are long shore drifts?
The process by which natural forces move weathered rock and soil from one place to another
What is Erosion?
What is the process by which weathered rock, Sediment, and soil are dropped in a new location?
What is Deposition?
What are the carbonic deposits that hang like an icicle from the roof of the cave?
What is stalactite
Glaciers that cover the majority of a continent or large island?
What are Continental Glaciers?
The process where rock is physically broken into smaller pieces?
What is Mechanical Weathering?
List the 4 main types of mass movements.
What is Landslide, mudflow, creep, and slump?
What are the 5 stream formations?
What are rills, gullies, streams,rivers, and tributaries?
Glaciers that are long and narrow form when snow and ice build up in a mountain valley
What are Valley Glaciers?