Weathering & Erosion
The breaking down of rock.
What is weathering?
Found deep beneath the earth, this is the starting point for soil.
What is bedrock?
Liquid to gas.
What is evaporation?
Long-term weather patterns for an area?
What is climate?
A landform characterized by having a high elevaition and high relief.
What is a mountain?
The 5 spheres.
What are the geosphere, atmosphere, biosphere, cryosphere, and hydrosphere?
Dark organic material found inside of soil.
What is humus?
Solid to liquid.
What is melting?
The short-term atmospheric conditions of an area.
What is Weather?
A landform that is formed by the movement of sand by wind.
What is a dune?
The agents of erosion.
(all or none)
What are water, wind, ice, and gravity?
A type of sediment that can usually be found on the coastline.
What is sand?
or
What is easily the most annoying form or sediment on the entire planet, no cap, it is absolutley garbanzo beans?
Gas to liquid.
what is condensation?
Latitude line 0 that runs across the center of the planet.
What is the equator?
The highest point of elevation - the lowest point of elevation for an area.
What is relief?
Occurs where the agents of erosion lay down sediment.
What is deposition?
The second smallest sediment component that is found in soil.
What is silt?
Solid to gas.
What is sublimation?
Describe what happens to climates as you move farther from the equator.
(not in the form of a question)
As you move farther from the equator, climates become colder.
A landform that is created by the deposition of sediment at the point where a river meets another body of water. (a lake or ocean)
What is a delta?
A type of weathering that involves rock being broken down by particles of rock.
What is abrasion?
The principle that states that the geological principles that operate today also operated in the past.
What is uniformitarianism?
Plants and animals releasing water vapor into the atmosphere.
What is transpiration?
Three factors that affect the climate of an area.
(all or none)
What are latitude, altitude, and proximity to large bodies of water?
Similar to a mountain but with a flat top instead of a peak.
What is a plateau?