Earth's Changing Surfaces

Question 1

Mechanical weathering

Answer 1

Rocks are broken apart by physical processes

Question 2

Chemical weathering

Answer 2

Reactions dissolve the rock or change them into different materials

Question 3

Erosion

Answer 3

The movement of sediment form one place to another

Question 4

Four types of erosion

Answer 4

Glaciers
Gravity
Water
Wind

Question 5

Deposition

Answer 5

Laying down of sediment that has been eroded

Question 6

What are deltas and alluvial fans

Answer 6

Fan shaped deposits at the mouths

Question 7

Meanders and oxbow lakes

Answer 7

Bends in a river

Question 8

What are flood plains

Answer 8

Strip of both sides of the river that is made up of sediments

Question 9

Wind blowing rocks together to form smaller rocks

Answer 9

Weathering

Question 10

A mudslide flowing down a steep hill

Answer 10

Weathering

Question 11

Floodwater pounding against the canyon wall and wearing it down

Answer 11

Weathering

Question 12

Water getting into cracks, freezing and breaking the rocks apart

Answer 12

Weathering

Question 13

Wind blowing sand from one location to another

Answer 13

Erosion

Question 14

Brainwash him away soil from a hillside

Answer 14

Erosion

Question 15

Glaciers scraping rocks across the earth surface

Answer 15

Erosion

Question 16

Muddy water being carried away by fast-moving river

Answer 16

Erosion

Question 17

Landforms Called deltas that form where rivers flow into other bodies of water such as a sea

Answer 17

Deposition

Question 18

Layers of sediment forming at the bottom of the ocean

Answer 18

Deposition

Question 19

Waves dropping sand on the beach

Answer 19

Deposition

Question 20

Glaciers that drop rock sand and other debris’s forming landforms called moraines

Answer 20

Deposition

Question 21

Two dimensional model of the earths surface

Answer 21

Topographic map

Question 22

It connects points of egalitarian elevation

Answer 22

Contour line

Question 23

The difference between high and low elevations

Answer 23

Relief

Question 24

Difference in elevation between each line

Answer 24

Contour interval

Question 25

Usually every fifth line is printed darker and has the elevation printed on it

Answer 25

Index contour

Question 26

Rules for contour

Answer 26

Lines don’t cross
Contours form closed loops
Contours bend upstream
Elevation for a hill is less then 1 of what the next contour should be

Question 27

Steeper slopes =

Answer 27

Closer lines

Question 28

Gradual slopes=

Answer 28

Farther apart lines

Question 29

Shows the exact elevation and is noted

Answer 29

Benchmark

Question 30

Compares the distance on the map compared to the real world

Answer 30

Map scale

Question 31

Weathering

Answer 31

Processes that work to break down rock