CH 27 27.2

Question 1

Weathering

Answer 1

Process that involves the physical or chemical breakdown of materials on earths surface.

Question 2

Soil

Answer 2

Mixture of weathered rock, organic matter, water, and air that is capable of supporting plant life.

Question 3

Erosion

Answer 3

Removal of surface materials through the processes of weathering.

Question 4

Sediment Transport

Answer 4

posses of moving eroded materials from one place to another through the movement of water, ice, wind and due to gravity.

Question 5

Deposition

Answer 5

dropping of sediment previously in transport as the erosion agent slows down, or in the case of ice, melt.

Question 6

Drainage Basin

Answer 6

land areas that gathers water for a major river or several major river systems,

Question 7

longshore current

Answer 7

moment of water, and often, sediment, parallel to the shoreline.

Question 8

What is the difference between wreathing and erosion?

Answer 8

Weathering is the breakdown materials and erosion is the removal

Question 9

As the slope of river decreases

Answer 9

The rivers speed decrease

Question 10

What are

Question 11

What shape do young rivers make due to fast movement?

Answer 11

V-shape

Question 12

what types of Rivers are wide with smooth and gentle slopes

Answer 12

Mature

Question 13

When rivers flood and drop there sediment load?

Answer 13

Flood plains

Question 14

What are fan shaped sediments deposits will form at the mouth of a river?

Answer 14

Deltas

Question 15

What are the branching channels that are created by delta?

Answer 15

Distributaries

Question 16

Where the mouth of a river or stream enters dry land?

Answer 16

Alluvial fans

Question 17

What are the two types of glaciers?

Answer 17

Valley and continental glaciers

Question 18

Where do valley glaciers form?

Answer 18

High mountainous regions

Question 19

Where are the two glaciers located

Answer 19

One in Greenland and in Antarctic

Question 20

What is a cirque?

Answer 20

Bowl shaped basin

Question 21

What is an Arete?

Answer 21

long sharp ridgeline

Question 22

What is a horn?

Answer 22

Sharpened peaks

Question 23

What do tributary glaciers create?

Answer 23

Hanging vallies

Question 24

what are tributary glaciers?

Answer 24

small glaciers that feed into big glaciers

Question 25

What shape of valley glaciers create?

Answer 25

U- shaped valleys

Question 26

Which side of a sand doom does an erosion occur?

Answer 26

windward side

Question 27

Which side does deposition occur on sand dummes?

Answer 27

leeward side

Question 28

what is the removal of small particles by wind leaving heavier particles behind?

Answer 28

Deflation

Question 29

When small particles are removed the remaining surface is called?

Answer 29

desert pavement

Question 30

what dies the shape and sizes of land forms depend on?

Answer 30

wind speed, amount of time the wind blows,and sediment supply

Question 31

What are three land forms created by wave erosion?

Answer 31

Coastal cliff, sea stacks, and sea arches

Question 32

what are two samples of wave depostion?

Answer 32

Sand bars and sand spits

Question 33

what is a sandbar?

Answer 33

Land forms that are parallel to the shoreline

Question 34

what is a sand spit?

Answer 34

Sandbars that extend into the water from land and curve back toward land in a hook shape

Question 35

what is mass wasting caused by?

Answer 35

snow, heavy rain, earthquakes, or human wasting, mass wasting results

Question 36

what are examples of mass wasting?

Answer 36

rock slides, mudflows, landslides