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Prevention Strategies
Erosion
Deposition
Topography
Vocabulary
100
The breakdown of rocks by wind, water, and/or ice.
What is weathering?
100
The movement of sediments.
What is erosion.
100
To lay down by a natural process.
What is deposition or deposit?
100
A collection of landforms in an area.
What is topography?
100
Conclusions made based on observation.
What is inference?
200
To prevent erosion of a beach you could build this right against the shore.
What is a seawall?
200
Construction and farming affect the land in this way.
What is increase erosion?
200
This earth process follows erosion.
What is deposition?
200
This landform is where you would expect to find the most fertile soil.
What is a delta/mouth of a river?
200
The amount of subjects/data tested.
What is sample size?
300
A stream of water that runs parallel to the shore and moves sand across (up and down) the beach.
What is a longshore current?
300
Erosion may form this type of landform.
What is a cliff or hill?
300
This earth process' force builds up earth material.
What is constructive?
300
If the contour lines on a topographical map are close together then the area is
What is steep?
300
A riverbed that is carved into the land.
What is river channel?
400
This person studies the earth proceses to figure out ways to prevent erosion.
What is a geologist?
400
The earth process' force that breaksdown earth's material.
What is destructive?
400
This is formed by the deposition of sediments that occur when rivers flood then recede.
What is a floodplain?
400
The height difference between lines on a topographical map.
What is contour interval?
400
The use of suction to "vacuum" gravel off the bottom of a waterway.
What is dredging?
500
This rock structure can be found at Tybee Island and is built perpendicular to the shore.
What is a jetty?
500
This type of percipitation can cause erosion.
What is rain or snow?
500
The materials that settle out of the flowing water from the delta.
What are sediments?
500
This letter marks the highest point on a topographical map.
What is X?
500
A variable changed in a systematic way in order to determine its effect.
What is tested variable?