1 Flashcards
1
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Shape of landscapes
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U shape and V shaped valley
2
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Weathering Processes
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Freeze Thaw-water in cracks, freeze, expand, pressure, ice melts
Chemical weathering-Acidic rainfall wearing rock away
Biological weathering- plant and animals forming cracks in the rocks
3
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Slope processes
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Rockfalls/landslides. Rock and debris sides down the slope change the landscape
4
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Post glacial river processes
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River erosion create misfit streams (streams that should not be there) and deposit alluvium
5
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Effect of the Ice age
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Water runs of surface of valley eroding the valley during the processe
6
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Igneous Rock
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Formed from lava. Once molten and were created by destructive volcano
7
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Sedimentary Rock
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Formed in the ocean from sediments
8
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Metamorphic Rock
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Rocks that continuously heated and compressed
