errosion vocabulary

Question 1

erosion

Answer 1

is the prosses by which soil are transported from location to another

Question 2

weathering

Answer 2

the prosses which rock is broken down by the action of physical or chemical prossesses

Question 3

water cycle

Answer 3

is the cycle of water from ocean to atmosphere to land back to ocean

Question 4

evaporation

Answer 4

water from oceans changes into water vapor and gos up

Question 5

condensation

Answer 5

when water vapor cools changes into water droplets in clouds

Question 6

precipitation

Answer 6

rain,snow,hail fro clouds comes to earth

Question 7

percolation

Answer 7

the water moves downward into the ground

Question 8

runoff

Answer 8

is the preiptation moves over land ends up in streams and rivers,oceans

Question 9

tributary

Answer 9

a stream that flows into a lake or into larger stream

Question 10

watershed

Answer 10

the area of land that is drained by a water system

Question 11

continental divide

Answer 11

it divides watersheds

Question 12

deposition

Answer 12

prosses in which material is laid down

Question 13

delta

Answer 13

a fan shaped mass of material deposited at mouth of a stream

Question 14

alluvial fan

Answer 14

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

Question 15

floodplain

Answer 15

an area along a river that forms sediment deposited when the river overflows it banks

Question 16

water table

Answer 16

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

Question 17

sewage treatment plants

Answer 17

a facility that cleans the wast materials found in water that comes from sewers and drains

Question 18

septic tank

Answer 18

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

Question 19

stratified drift

Answer 19

a glacial deposit that has been sorted and layered by the action of streams or meltwater

Question 20

till

Answer 20

unsorted rock material that is deposited directly by a melting glacier

Question 21

glacial drift

Answer 21

the rock material carried and deposited by glaciers

Question 22

glacier

Answer 22

a large mass of moving ice

Question 23

beach

Answer 23

an area of shoreline made up of material deposited by waves

Question 24

headlands

Answer 24

a finger shaped projections when hard rock erodes slowly

Question 25

wave-cut terraces

Answer 25

when the rock is wore back and almost level platform beneath the water

Question 26

sea caves

Answer 26

when waves eroded into rock forming a cave

Question 27

sea arches

Answer 27

when waves erode all the way through the sea cave and out the other side

Question 28

sea stacks

Answer 28

there columes of rocks that were once connected to land mass but waves eroded there ties with land and now there just stacks of rocks