Aeolian Environment

Question 1

Less capable of picking up and transporting coarse materials but can spread sediment over large area as well as high into the atmosphere

Answer 1

Air transport

Question 2

Capable of picking up and transporting coarse material

Answer 2

Water transport

Question 3

Windblown sands are moved by skipping and bouncing along the surface

Answer 3

Saltation

Question 4

Saltating grains collide mid air, before reaching the bed

Answer 4

Sheet flow

Question 5

Larger, heavier grains are transported while still in contact with the ground

Answer 5

Traction

Question 6

The process whereby traction load maintain grain to grain collision

Answer 6

Creep

Question 7

Grinding action, while on transit wind borne particles often collides with one another

Answer 7

Attrition

Question 8

May aid shaping of some of the detail of major form

Answer 8

Wind abrasion

Question 9

Lifting and removal of loose, grained materials from earths surface

Answer 9

Deflation

Question 10

Consist of finer particles suspended in the air

Answer 10

Suspended load

Question 11

used as paleocurrent indicator

with still pointed crest

Answer 11

wind or sand ripples

Question 12

mounds and ridges of sand fro wind’s bed load

Answer 12

dunes

Question 13

solitary crescent shaped dunes

Answer 13

barchan

Question 14

long ridges seperated by troughss and oriented at right angle to the prevailing wind

Answer 14

transverse

Question 15

between barchan and transverse dunes

Answer 15

barchanoid

Question 16

long ridges of sand that forms parallel to the prevailing wind

Answer 16

longitudinal

Question 17

forms when vegetation partially covers the sand

Answer 17

parabolic dunes

Question 18

isolated radiating hills of sand, star - shaed, variable wind direction

Answer 18

star dunes

Question 19

extensive blankets of silt

Answer 19

loess

Question 20

created by pattern of the earth’s air circulation and topgraphy of the land, can be seen in the tropic of cancer and capricorn

Answer 20

low latitude deserts

Question 21

prevailing winds meet mountain barriers, the air is forced to ascend. when air rises it expands and cools, that precipitates water, as the air descends in the leeward side the air is much drier and creates the cold desert

Answer 21

mid latitude deserts

Question 22

semi arid

Answer 22

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