Weathering
Rivers
Ocean/Wind
Glaciers
Misc
100
Feature that is formed due to physical weathering, specifically the repeated freezing and thawing of water inside a crack in the road
What are potholes?
100
shape of valley formed by a river
What is V shaped?
100
structure that changes the erosion/deposition on the shoreline, can be placed by people to change beach shapes
What is a breakwater or jetty?
100
how glaciers deposit sediment
What is unsorted?
100
type of erosion that is caused by gravity (does not sort sediment that gets deposited)
What is mass movement?
200
Breaking down rocks into smaller pieces in a way that doesn't change the composition of the rock
What is physical weathering
200
order that sediment types will be deposited (size wise)
what is boulders, cobbles, pebbles, sand, silt, clay
200
Direction of longshore drift seen here
What is west?
200
Shape of valley created by a glacier
What is U- shaped?
200
Property of lead that makes it get deposited faster than something like pumice
What is density?
300
Breaking down rock in a way that alters the composition of the rock
What is chemical weathering?
300
feature that forms when part of a river gets cut off due to erosion
What is an oxbow lake?
300
depositional feature created by ocean waves. Protects the mainland from erosion
What is a barrier island?
300
Feature that tells geologists the direction that a glacier has moved
What are drumlins or scratches/striations or a moraine?
300
shape of sediment that will settle (get deposited) the fastest
What is round?
400
Forms when limestone bedrock is weathered away under the topsoil by something like acid rain
What is a sinkhole/cave?
400
how a sediment transported by a river changes as it tumbles
What is it becomes more rounded and smooth?
400
The horizontal movement of sand over time due to ocean waves
What is longshore drift?
400
The reason that jones beach is sandy and north shore beaches are rocky
What is the moraine is on the north shore and the outwash plain is on the south shore?
400
Layer that is most resistant to weathering seen here
What is A?
500
sediments grinding up against each other wearing away the sediment
What is abrasion?
500
occurs on the inside bend of a river
What is deposition?
500
erosional feature created by wind that can be seen in desserts or at the beach
What are sand dunes?
500
How the melting of glaciers caused by climate change/global warming will affect us here on LI
What is rising sea levels?
500
minimum stream velocity needed to keep a 6.4-cm-diameter particle in motion?
what is 200cm/s