Erosion!✨🪨 🧊🌊💨 Flashcards
What do weathering and erosion do with each other?
Weathering and erosion work together.
How are weathering and erosion different?
Weathering breaks rocks and weakens the Earth’s surface up into smaller pieces, while erosion wears away, transports, and removes the broken and loosened material.
What is weathering?
Weathering is the process of weakening and breaking up rocks and the Earth’s surface up into smaller pieces
What is erosion?
Erosion is the process of wearing away, transporting, and removing the broken and loosened material.
What are the chief types of erosion that are not manmade?
The chief types of erosion are the action of rivers, the sea, ice and wind.
What are some ways in which human erosion take place?
Human erosion, which is important, includes bulldozers and lorries which dig out and move large amounts of soil and loose rock, so changing the landscape.
What do humans do that can make the land easier to erode?
People sometimes remove trees and vegetation which can allow water, wind and ice to erode land more easily.
What are some large scale examples of erosion?
Mountains, valleys, plains, and coasts are shaped and changed by water, ice, and wind.
What does erosion do(short)?
Erosion wears away the land.
What does transportation do?
Transportation moves the material from one place to another.
What does deposition do?
Deposition moves the material elsewhere and builds up new landforms.
Order in which this takes place?
Erosion-Deposition-Transportation
