Vocabulary
Landslides that primarily involve rocks
The greatest factor in mechanical weathering
What is climate?
When carbon dioxide dissolves in water
What is carbonation?
Loose layer of rock and soil moved during mass wasting
What is a regolith?
Erosion where wind carries away sand and soil particles
What is deflation?
Extremely slow downhill slide of soil
What is soil creep?
Another name for mechanical weathering
What is physical weathering?
Name two of the three types of chemical weathering caused by water
What are hydrolysis, hydration, and carbonation?
A concave slope
What is a slump?
Wearing down of rock surfaces by other rocks or sand particles
What is abrasion?
Breaking down of rocks by a physical process
What is mechanical weathering?
Two causes of mechanical weathering
What are temperature extremes and living things?
Calcite and carbonic acid combine to form these structures on the floor of a cave
What are stalagmites?
General term for downhill movement of rocks and soil caused by gravity
What is mass wasting?
Two landforms caused by deflation
What are desert pavement and deflation hollows?
Breaking down of a substance by chemical reaction with water
What is hydrolysis?
These factors affect the rate of mechanical weathering. (name two)
What are climate, type of rock, amount of exposed area, and topography?
Two of the four ways oxidation can be prevented
What are paint, oil, grease, and other metals?
Rapid downhill movement of a large mass of mud and debris
What is a mudflow?
Two results of wind deposition
What are loess and dunes?
Natural and artificial features of land
What is topography?
Three living things that can cause mechanical weathering
What are tree roots, burrowing animals, and mollusks (snails)?
Minerals react with these four items to cause chemical weathering (name three)
What are water, carbon dioxide, oxygen, and acids?
Four common causes of a landslide
What are earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, rain, and spring thaw?
The world's largest depression
What is the Qattara Depression?