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Question 1

What is the difference between weathering and erosion?

Answer 1

Weathering is the breakdown of materials while erosion is the removal of materials

Question 2

What happens to the river speed if the slope decreases

Answer 2

The river speed decreases

Question 3

What are Small streams that flow into larger rivers called?

Answer 3

Tributaries

Question 4

What are Land area that gather waters for a major river called?

Answer 4

Drainage Basin

Question 5

What is a boundary that separates distinct drainage basins called

Answer 5

drainage divide

Question 5

What is made when water flows downhill under the influence of gravity water erode earths surface?

Answer 5

channels

Question 6

What is shape is made when young rivers have fast movement?

Answer 6

V-shaped

Question 7

What is the name of rivers that are wide with smooth gentle slopes

Answer 7

Mature Rivers

Question 8

When Rivers flood and drop their sediment load which type of land form is created?

Answer 8

Flood Plains

Question 9

What are the fan-shapes sediment deposit that form at the mouth of a river.

Answer 9

Deltas

Question 10

What are the branching channels that are created by deltas

Answer 10

Distributors

Question 11

What forms where the mouth of a river or stream enter dry land

Answer 11

Alluvial Fans

Question 12

What are the two types of glaciers

Answer 12

Valley and Continental

Question 13

What are the two types of glaciers

Answer 13

Valley and Continental

Question 14

Where do valley glaciers form?

Answer 14

In High Mountainous regions.

Question 15

Where do continental glaciers form?

Answer 15

In Ice sheets that occupy large land areas in colder climates

Question 16

Where is the two continental glaciers located

Answer 16

Greenland and Antarctica

Question 17

What are Cirques?

Answer 17

A Bowl Shaped basins

Question 18

What is a Arete

Answer 18

They are Where 2 adjacent valley glaciers meet and erode a long, sharp ridgeline

Question 19

What is a horn

Answer 19

sharpened peaks

Question 20

What shape do Valley Glaciers create

Answer 20

U-shaped valleys

Question 21

What are tributary glaciers

Answer 21

Small glaciers that feed into the large glaceriers

Question 22

What type of valley do tributary glaciers create?

Answer 22

Hanging valleys

Question 23

On which side of a dune does erosion occur?

Answer 23

The Windward side

Question 24

On which side of the dune does deposition occures?

Answer 24

The leeward side

Question 25

What is it called when the removal of small particles by win, leaving heavier particles behind

Answer 25

Deflation

Question 26

What is it called when small particles are removed, the remaining surface behind

Answer 26

desert pavement.

Question 27

What does the shape and sizes of land form due to wind depends on?

Answer 27

wind speed
amount of time the wind blows
sediment supplies

Question 28

What are some landforms created by wave erosions

Answer 28

Coastal cliffs
sea arches
Sea stacks

Question 29

what are two example of wave deposition`

Answer 29

Sand Bars

Sand Spits``1`

Question 30

Sand Bars

Answer 30

Landforms that are parallel to the shoreline

Question 31

What are Sand Spits

Answer 31

They are sandbars that extend into the water from land and curve back toward land in a hook shape

Question 32

What can cause mass wasting?

Answer 32

Snow, heavy rain, earthquakes, or human activity`

Question 33

What are examples of mass wasting.

Answer 33

Rocks slides, mud flow, landslides