Chapter 8 Erosion

Question 0

A slide of large masses of snow and ice and mud down a mountain.

Answer 0

Avalanche

Question 1

The grinding and wearing away of rock surfaces
through the mechanical action of other rock or sand particles.

Answer 1

Abrasion

Question 2

A bowl-shaped hollow eroded by a glacier.

Answer 2

Cirque

Question 3

A large ice sheet that covers a continent.

Answer 3

Continental Glacier

Question 4

The slow downhill movement of weathered rock material.

Answer 4

Creep

Question 5

Erosion of soil as a consequence of sand and dust and loose rocks being removed by the wind.

Answer 5

Deflation

Question 6

A long mound of till that is smoothed in the direction of the glacier’s flow.

Answer 6

Drumlin

Question 7

A hill or ridge of sand piled up by the wind.

Answer 7

Dune

Question 8

Long ridge of material deposited by a meltwater stream flowing beneath a glacier.

Answer 8

Esker

Question 9

A large sheet or stream of ice formed in an area where the temperature remains below or near freezing and more snow accumulates in winter than melts in summer.

Answer 9

Glacier

Question 10

A side valley at a higher elevation above a u- shaped valley.

Answer 10

Hanging Valley

Question 11

Glaciers carve away the sides of a mountain resulting in a peak.

Answer 11

Horn

Question 12

Cone shaped deposit of sediment from a glacier.

Answer 12

Kame

Question 13

A bowl-shaped depression that was formed by a a glacier and then became filled with water.

Answer 13

Kettle Lake

Question 14

The sudden movement of rock and soil down a slope.

Answer 14

Landslide

Question 15

A wind-formed deposit made of fine particles of clay and silt.

Answer 15

Loess

Question 16

Any one of several processes by which gravity moves sediment downhill.

Answer 16

Mass Movement

Question 17

A ridge formed by the till deposited at the edge of a glacier.

Answer 17

Moraine

Question 18

The rapid downhill movement of a mixture of water, rock, and soil.

Answer 18

Mudflow

Question 19

Sediment deposited in front of a glacier by streams of meltwater.

Answer 19

Outwash

Question 20

Area in front of a glacier in which melt water from the glacier has carried & deposited an abundance of sorted material.

Answer 20

Outwash Plain

Question 21

A large mass of rock and soil suddenly slip down a slope.

Answer 21

Slump

Question 22

Unsorted rock material that is deposited directly by a glacier.

Answer 22

Till

Question 23

A long, narrow glacier that forms when snow and ice build up in a mountain valley.

Answer 23

Valley glaciers (Alpine)

Question 24

Rocks shaped by wind blown sediments.

Answer 24

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