Midterm #1

Question 1

How do Humans influence the earth’s landscape?

Answer 1

• Agriculture creates large amounts of erosion

- Coal mining

Question 2

What Is Geomorphology?

Answer 2

• The study of landforms and processes that creat, build and modify them (the evolution and configuration of land forms)
• The interactions between the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere and lithosphere
• Geo = earth
• Morph = Form

Question 3

How did the Qu’Appelle Valley Form?

Answer 3

• It formed from the spill way of former glaciers
• The valleys used to be twice as deep at one point but it filled in with fine sediment
• The Meandering river has nothing to do with the former glaciers