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CH 27.1 and 27.2 Vocab Flashcards

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1
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Is the process that involves the physical or chemical breakdown of materials on Earths surface

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Weathering

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is a mixture of weathering rock, organic matter, water and air that is capable of supporting plant life.

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Soil

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Is the removal of surface material through the process weathering.

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Erosion

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process that moves materials from one place to another such is water, ice and wind

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Sediment transport

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When the erosional agent slows down In the case of water, wind, or gravity or melts in the case of glaciers it drop this sediment load in a process.

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Deposition

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The land area that gathers water for major river

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Drainage basin

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The movement of water parallel to the shoreline.

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Longshore current

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Do rocks weather at the same rate?

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9
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What are two main factors that determine how fast a rock will weather?

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rock type and landscape

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10
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What are the two types of weathering?

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Mechanical and chemical

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What type of change happens with mechanical weathering?

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what type of change happens with chemical weathering?

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13
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What are the 3 specific types of mechanical weathering?

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Frost Wedging Biological Activity,

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14
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What causes frost wedging?

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Water collects

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15
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What is the cycle called during frost wedging?

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Freeze Thaw Cycles

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16
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What causes biological activity?

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Plants and Animals

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17
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What causes weathering during collisions?

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When rocks fall from a cliff or tumble through turbulent rivers

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What are the 2 types of chemical weathering caused by?

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Oxygen and Water

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What is the chemical process called that is caused by oxygen?

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oxidation.

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20
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What is the chemical process called that is caused by water?

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Hydrolysis

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21
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What is parent material?

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Is a material from which soil forms

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22
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What are soil horizons?

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Different layers of soil

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23
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How many soil horizons are there?

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24
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True or false. All soils contain every soil horizon?

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False

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25
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What are the specific soil horizons?

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26
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What does the first soil horizon contain?

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Organic Material

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27
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What is the second horizon mostly made of?

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Minerals

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28
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Which layer does leeching occur?

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29
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Which horizon collects material from previous horizons?

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30
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Which layer is partially weathered in bedrock?

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31
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Which layer is unweathered bedrock?

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32
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Which soil horizons make up the topsoil?

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33
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Which soil horizons make up the subsoil?

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34
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Which soil horizons make up the true soil?

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35
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What is the difference between weathering and erosion

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Weathering breaks down into materials

36
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erosion removes surface material

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if the slope of a river decreases what will happen to the speed it decreases.

37
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Small streams that flow into a larger rivers are called

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Tributes

38
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Land area that gathers water for major rivers is called a

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drainage basin

39
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A boundary that separates distict drainage basins is called

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drainage divide

40
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As water flows downhill under the influence of gravity, water erodes earths surface creating.

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channels

41
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Young rivers are V shaped due to the fast movement.

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V shaped

42
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Mature rivers are wide with smooth and gentle slopes.

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Mature

43
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Flood plains

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When rivers flood and drop their sediment load, it is called flood plains.

44
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Deltas

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A fan shaped sediment deposit will form at the mouth of a river into another body of water.
dis tributaries are the branching channels.

45
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Alluvial Fans

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Form where the mouth of a river or stream enters dry land

46
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What are two types of glaciers?

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Valley and continental

47
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Were do valley glaciers form?

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Form in high, mountainous regionss

48
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Where do continental glaciers form?

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they form in colder climates and occupied large land areas.

49
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Where are two continental glaciers located?

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Greenland and Antarctica.

50
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What is a cirque

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Bowl shaped basins.

51
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What is an arete

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Form where 2 adjacent valley glaciers meet and erode a long sharp ridgeline

52
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What is a horn in a mountamous region?

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Sharpend and peaks

53
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What shape of valley do valley glaciers form?

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They create U shaped valleys.

54
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What are tributary glaciers?

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Small glaciers that feed into the large glaciers.

55
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What type of valley do tributary glaciers.

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Create hanging Valleys

56
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On which side of a sand dune does erosion occur on

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the windward side

57
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on which side of sand dunes does deposition occur

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leeward side

58
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the removal of small particles by wind,leaving heavier particles behind, is called defaltion.

59
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When small particles are removed, the remaining surface is called desert pavement.

60
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what is deflation?

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removal of small particles by wind

61
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What is the difference between weathering and erosion?

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weathering breaks down materials and erosion?

62
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The shapes and sizes of land forms being eroded by what?

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a windspeed, amount of wind blows, sediment supply.

63
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What are 3 land forms created by wave erosion

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Coastal cliffs, sea arches, sea stacks

64
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What are 2 examples of wave definition

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Sand bars, and sand spits

65
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What are sand bars?

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land forms that are parallel to shoreline.

66
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What B a sand spits?

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Extend into water and and curve back to land.

67
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What are things that can cause mass wasting?

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snow, heavy rains, human activity

68
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What are the exam roles of mass wasting?

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Rock slides, landslides.

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