Erosion

Question 1

The process by wich wind, water, ice, or gravity transports soil and sediment from one location to another

Answer 1

Erosion

Question 2

The process by wich rock materials are broken down by the action of physical or chemical process

Answer 2

Weathering

Question 3

The continuous movement of water from the ocean to the atmosphere to the land and back to the ocean

Answer 3

Water Cycle

Question 4

When water gets pulled into the sky due to the sun

Answer 4

Evaporation

Question 5

The change of state from a gas to a liquid

Answer 5

Condensation

Question 6

Any form of water that falls to the Earth’s surface from the clouds

Answer 6

Precipitation

Question 7

liquid passing through a filter

Answer 7

Percolation

Question 8

When water flows down a hill

Answer 8

runoff

Question 9

A stream that flows into a lake or into a larger stream

Answer 9

Tributary

Question 10

The area of land that is drained by a water system

Answer 10

Watershed

Question 11

Continents moving by the ice.

Answer 11

Continental divide

Question 12

The process in wich material is laid down

Answer 12

Deposition

Question 13

A fan-shaped mass of material deposited at the mouth of a stream

Answer 13

Delta

Question 14

a fan-shaped mass of material deposited by a stream when the slope of the land decreases sharply

Answer 14

Alluvial Fan

Question 15

An area along a river that forms from sediments deposited when the river overflows its banks

Answer 15

Floodplain

Question 16

The upper surface of underground water; the upper boundary of the zone of saturation

Answer 16

Water Table

Question 17

A facility that cleans the waste materials found in water that comes from sewers or drains

Answer 17

Sewage Treatment Plants

Question 18

A tank that separates solid waste from liquids and that has bacteria that break down the solid waste

Answer 18

Septic tank

Question 19

A column of rock standing in the sea, caused by erosion.

Answer 19

Sea stacks

Question 20

an arch of rock in the sea

Answer 20

Sea arches

Question 21

Caves formed by water causing erosion

Answer 21

Sea caves

Question 22

a wave cut terrance along a bay or lake

Answer 22

wave-cut Terrance’s

Question 23

A narrow piece of land that projects a coastline to the sea

Answer 23

Headlands

Question 24

a sandy shore along a lake

Answer 24

Beach

Question 25

A sheet or rock of ice

Answer 25

Glacier

Question 26

Glaciers moving around

Answer 26

Glacial drift

Question 27

A part that is by the glacier during glacial drift

Answer 27

Till

Question 28

When a glacier moves debris

Answer 28

stratified drift