Running like a River
Ice Ice Baby
Weathering
Erosion
Fun Facts
100
This geographic feature forms at the mouth of a river, and is the build-up of sediment usually in a triangular shape
What is a delta?
100
The shape of a valley formed by a glacier
What is U-shaped?
100
The two types of weather
What is physical and chemical?
100
When sediments are left behind in a location
What is deposition?
100
Most sand is made of the weathered sediment of this mineral
What is quartz?
200
In a meandering (curvy) stream, this is where erosion occurs in a curve.
What is the cutbank?
200
What we had left in the sand table after our "glacier" melted
What is an outwash plain?
200
This type of weathering involves breaking down of sediments into smaller pieces but doesn't change the chemical structure
What is physical weathering?
200
How this large rock known as an erratic got to its present location
What is transported by a glacier?
200
This location in New York was formed from the terminal moraines of two continental glaciers
What is Long Island?
300
Smaller rivers or steams that feed into a larger river
What are tributaries?
300
The pile of rock and sediment pushed by and dumped at the end of a glacier
What is a moraine?
300
This type of weathering involves the changing of materials by carbonation, oxidation, or hydrolysis.
What is chemical weathering?
300
As the velocity and volume of water in a river increases, the size of the sediment it can transport (increases or decreases)
What is increases?
300
These lakes are one of Ms. Sienkiewicz's favorite places to swim were once river valleys that were scooped out and dammed by glaciers.
What are the Finger Lakes?
400
The shape of a valley formed by a river
What is V-shaped?
400
a lake formed when a chunk of glacial ice is buried by sediment and then melts, forming a depression that fills with water
What is a kettle lake?
400
Rust is an example of this type of weathering
What is chemical weathering?
400
The Finger Lakes and the Great Lakes were both formed by this force of erosion.
What are glaciers or continential ice sheets?
400
Our river, the Susquehanna, flows into this bay on its way to the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Chesapeake Bay?
500
The area covered with water when due to a sudden increase in volume a river or stream overflows its banks
What is the floodplain?
500
Scratches on a rock that tell us the direction a glacier was moving
What are striations?
500
One type of rock that calcium carbonate and so undergoes chemical weathering in wet environments
What is limestone or dolostone?
500
The hills and valleys throughout the Southern Tier and Catskill region were all formed by this agent of erosion.
What is running water or rivers/streams?
500
Potholes are caused by this form of weathering
What is ice or frost wedging?