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Science
Mass movement, water erosion, wind, waves, glaciers
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| When waves crash onto the beach at an angle a _________ is created along the coastline. | Drift |
| The process where wind picks up sediment and moves it. | Deflation |
| What is till? | The mixture of sediments that a glacier deposits. |
| The land features that can be made by glacial erosion. | Arete, horns, cirques, and glacial lakes. |
| land features made by glacial deposition. | Moraine, drumlin, kettle lakes |
| What is a moraine? | The till deposited at the edge of a glacier. |
| What is a drumlin? | A long mound of till that is shaped in the direction of the glacier’s flow. |
| What is a kettle lake? | A small depression that forms when a chunk of ice is left in glacial till. |
| What force causes a wave to slow down and break when it reaches shallow water? | Friction |
| What land features are made from wave erosion? | Sea caves, sea arches, sea stacks, and wave cut cliffs. |
| land features made by wave deposition. | Barrier Beach, sandbar, and spit. |
| What is a barrier beach? | A beach that protects the mainland behind it from storm surge. |
| What is a Sandbar? | A deposit of sand parallel to the shore. |
| What is a spit? | When longshore drift adds sediment to existing land along a shoreline. |
| What is the difference between a sand dune and a loess? | A sand dune can be much larger especially the ones found in deserts. A loess is a fine sand deposit that can be fertile for planting. |
| What is gravity? | The force that moves rock and other materials. |
| What causes mass movement? | Gravity |
| What are the four types of mass movement? | Landslides, mudslides, slumps, creeps. |
| What is a landslide? | The occurrence of rock and soil slide quickly down a steep slope. |
| What is a mudslide? | The rapid downhill movement of a mixture of water, rock, and soil. |
| What is a slump? | A mass of rock and soil suddenly slips down a slope. |
| What is a creep? | The very slow downhill movement of rock and soil. |
| What is the material moved by erosion called? | Sediment |
| What is deposition? | Deposition is the occurrence of agents of erosion lay down sediment. |
| What is the major agent that has shaped Earth’s surface? | water |
| What is a runoff? | A runoff is all the remaining water that moves over Earth’s surface. |
| The five factors that control the amount of runoff. | The amount of rain an area receives. Vegetation. The type of soil. The shape of land. How people use the land. |
| What is a rill? | Tiny grooves in the soil. |
| What are gullies? | A large groove or channel, in the soil that carries runoff after a rainstorm. |
| What is a stream? | A channel along which water is continually flowing down a slope. |
| What land features are created by water erosion? | Valleys, waterfalls and rapids, flood plains, meanders and oxbow lakes. |
| What features are made by deposits from rivers? | Alluvial fans, deltas, and soil added for flood plains. |
| What is Karst Topography? | A type of landscape. |
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