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Mass Movement
Vocabulary
100
The breaking down of rock on Earth's surface into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
100

Wind and water can carry sand and small pieces of rock to new locations. True or False

What is True?

100

Volcanoes change Earth's surface...(slowly/quickly)

What is quickly?

100

The force that pulls sediment downhill.

What is gravity?

100
Small pieces that break off of rocks.
What is sediments?
200
Mountains and other surface features of the land.
What are landforms?
200

The laying down of sediment in a new location.

What is deposition?

200

Weathering changes Earth's surface...(slowly/quickly)

What is slowly?

200

A type of mass movement that is very slow downhill movement of rock and soil.

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200

Causes vertical objects to tilt over time.

What is creep?

300
The process by which weathered rock is picked up and moved to a new place.
What is erosion?
300

Several process caused by gravity that move sediment downhill.

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300

A type of mass movement when rock and soil slide quickly down a steep slope.

What is a landslide?

300

A force that pulls everything down.

What is gravity?

400

Materials of weathered soil and rock.

What is sediment?

400

Fast flowing rivers can pick up and carry rocks (far/short) distances.

What is far?

400

Weathering and erosion are at work... (everywhere/only along plate boundaries)

What is everywhere?

400

A type of mass movement that occurs after heavy rains saturates the soil.

What is a mudflow?

400

Occurs when road builders have cut highways through hills or mountains.

What are landslides?

500

The processes that wears down and builds up Earth's Surface.

What is weathering, erosion, and deposition?

500

Agents of erosion deposit, or lay day sediment.

What is deposition?

500

The most destructive mass movement is... (landslides/ creep)

What are landslides?

500

A type of mass movement when a large mass of land moves down.

What is slump?

500

The 4 types of mass movements.

What are mudflows, landslides, slumps, and creeps?