Geologic Process Flashcards
What are the 2 geologic process?
- Mass Wasting: The work of gravity
2. Erosion
What is the downslope movement of rocks and soil under the direct influence of gravity?
Mass Wasting
What are masses of rocks and sediments slide downslope along surfaces?
Landslides
What are the rapid flow of rock mass along flat inclined surface?
Rockslides / Avalanche
What is due to slow and moderate sliding of sediments or rock mass along a curved surface?
Slump
What is an extra slow movement of rock?
Creep
What is a very slow movement to rapid movement of fine-grained sediment or rock particles up to 30% water?
Mudflow
What is a process of gradual destruction of something by wind, water, and other natural agents?
Erosion
What is a process of lowering the surface of the land mass from which the material was removed?
Denudation
What are the 5 causes of erosion?
- Kaingin Method
- Logging
- Infrastructure Projects
- Mining
- Burning Grasslands
What cause of erosion that trees are cut and burned. Soil loses its fertility?
Kaingin Method
What cause of erosion that practices of illegal logging distrurbs the soil?
Logging
What cause of erosion such as dams, roads, bridges, irrigations, and drainage basins, resorts and hydroelectric plant?
Infrastructure Projects
What cause of erosion that companies loosens and dig rocks exposing them to further erosion?
Mining
What cause of erosion from which may lead to accidental fires and can destroy plants and leave the soil bare?
Burning Grasslands
