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Mass Movement
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A slow moving movement that usually takes a while to collapse | creep |
| When rock suddenly falls downhill | slump |
| When water rock and soil slide downhill together | Mudslide |
| When rock is going downhill fast and this is also most deadly | landslide |
| What causes mass movement | gravity pulling down sediment down a hill or slope |
| Which erosion causes most damage | Water Erosion |
| How do waves form | They form when wind blows across the oceans surface |
| How do waves erode | Waves erode by impact and abrasion |
| What kind of landforms do waves create | Sea caves, sea arches, sea stacks, and wave cut cliffs |
| What happens when a wave slows down and deposits sediment | A beach is formed |
| What is another name for deposited sediment | till |
| What is a valley glacier | It is a glacier where snow and ice forms and build up inbetween a mountain valley |
| What is a continential glacier | A glacier that covers most of an island or continent |
| When a wave crashes onto a beach at an angle a _____ forms | Longshore current |
| What is it called when glaciers pick up rock | plucking |
| What can glacial erosion make | Arete, horns, cirque, and kettle lakes |
| What can glacial deposition form | Moraines, drumlns, and kettle lakes |
| The pocess of wind picking up sediment is called | deflation |
| What is moraine | Is the till deposited at the end of a glacier |
| What is a drumlin | A long mound of till that is shaped in the glaciers flow |
| What is a kettle lake | A depression of where till is deposited and still has a chunk of ice inside |
| What slows down a wave at shallow water | friction |
| Whats a barrier beach | It is a beach that protects the rainland behind it from the storm charge |
| What is a sandbar | A long bridge of sand carrying all the way to shore |
| What is a spit | A longshore drift adds sediment to existing land along a stateline |
| What are the 4 types of mass movement | Landslide, mudslide, slump, and creep |
| What is material moved by erosion | Sediment |
| What is deposition | when sediment soil and rocks are added to a landform |
| What is run off | Water that flows over Earths surface |
| What landforms are created by water erosion | Flood plain, Meanders, waterfalls, oxbow lake, v-shaped valley |
| What land forms are created by water deposition | Alluvial fan, delta |
| What is carstagrophy | A landscape marked by caves, and sinkholes |
| What is found on the bottom of a cave | stalagmite |
| what is found on the top of a cave | stalactite |
| What features form from groundwater erosion | Caves, and sinkholes |
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