Topic 1
What breaks down rock into smaller pieces
Weathering
What picks up and moves pieces of weathered rock?
Erosion
What is the process of building up sediment?
Deposition
Formed where a glacier deposits mounds or ridges of a till.
What is a Moarine?
Ice Wedging is what type of weathering?
Mechanical
What process forms a Beach
Deposition
What type of weathering will cause marble statues to become deformed?
Chemical Weathering
What is a huge mass of slow moving ice?
What is a GLACIER
What is a fan-shaped FLAT piece of land at the mouth of a river?
Delta
What process forms a sinkhole
Erosion
How will a rock feel if it was constantly being hit by waves in the ocean?
Smooth
What process forms a cliff
Erosion
What process forms a delta?
Deposition
Chemicals in ground water can dissolve the rocks forming what landform
Cavern
List three Landforms formed by Deposition
Sand dune, Beach/Coastline, Moraine, Delta
List three types of mechanical weathering.
Wind, Water, Ice, Gravity, Abrasion
What landform is a result of chemical weathering processes from rainwater and groundwater that causes the upper land to fall
Sinkhole
Water seeps into cracks --> freezes --> rock breaks apart
What process
Ice Wedging (Mechanical weathering)
What process forms a sand dune
What process forms a Cirque
Erosion
roots find cracks in rocks → roots grow and expand inside the cracks of rocks → growing roots cause pressure to break down rocks
What Process?
Mechanical Weathering
water containing acid seeps into a sedimentary rock → sedimentary rock reacts with the acid → sedimentary rock dissolves
What process?
Chemical Weathering
Which landform is MOST subjected to WIND EROSION
Sand dunes
What landform is a deposit of sediment that originates in the mountains and is transported by rivers.
Coastline
List three landforms formed by erosion
Cavern, Sinkhole, Cliff, Cirque