Unit 7

Question 1

Channel

Answer 1

Path stream/river takes

Question 2

Water shed

Answer 2

Where water is held land where water gets funneled

Question 3

Floodplain

Answer 3

Adjacent to water

Area that typically gets flooded

Question 4

Tributary

Answer 4

Smaller bodies that branch off river/stream

Question 5

Steam velocity

Answer 5

Top- middle, less friction

Side- just below surface

Question 6

Weathering

Answer 6

Breakdown of rocks into small pieces

Question 7

Glacier Striations

Answer 7

Glacier movement abrasion scratches rocks

Question 8

Glacier sorting type layering

Answer 8

Unsorted
Un layered
out wash is the one exception it’s sorts when melt

Question 9

Drumlin

Answer 9

Ice moves from steep side to gradual

Question 10

Glacier scrapes at valley creating…

Answer 10

U shape valley

Question 11

Cirque

Answer 11

Deep bowl depression

Question 12

Arête

Answer 12

Sharp jagged ridge

Bren cirques

Question 13

Horn

Answer 13

Many arêtes form pyramid peak

Question 14

Kettle

Answer 14

Our wash plains w/ depressions
Chucks of ice are buried
Ice melts—> hole—> lake

Question 15

Soil

Answer 15

Weathered rock remains

Organic material

Question 16

Groundwater

Answer 16

Water that goes underground in spaces Btwn soil

Question 17

Delta

Answer 17

Sediments go out in Triangle shape
Land form at mouth of river
Horizontal sorting

Question 18

Alluvial fan

Answer 18

Stream deposits sed. on land
Flows from mountain to flat land
Fan shape

Question 19

Flooding

Answer 19

Increase of water volume —> overflow

On FLAT land only

Question 20

Plants and flooding

Answer 20

Protects from erosion

Takes in would be run off water

Question 21

Relief

Answer 21

Difference in elevation

Question 22

Plains

Answer 22

Low relief
Flat
Horizontal SED bedrock
Rivers, valleys

Question 23

Plateaus

Answer 23

Mid. Relief
Horizontal SED bedrock
Catskills⭐️, dissected plateau

Question 24

Mountain

Answer 24

Highest relief
Extreme elevation
META IGN bedrock

Question 25

Arid climate

Answer 25

Dry
Steep slopes, angled rocks, no vege.
Thin soils
Phys. weathering

Question 26

Humid climate

Answer 26

Moist, gentle slopes, round rocks, lots of vege

Thick souls, chem. Weathering

Question 27

Radial drainage

Answer 27

Off slope

Diff. Directions off MOUNT

Question 28

Dendritic drainage

Answer 28

Flow off plains, low points
Flat water
Branches

Question 29

Trellis drainage

Answer 29

Flow off plateau
Faulted/folded rock
Flow through folds

Question 30

Annular

Answer 30

Water flows off igneous body
Intrusion breaks through sed rock
Eroded—> groves

Question 31

Agents of erosion

Answer 31

Gravity
Wind
Water
Ice

Question 32

Erratic

Answer 32

Boulders leftover left behind from glaciers

Question 33

Surface ocean currents

Answer 33

Shallow currents in 1 cont. movement by prevailing winds

Question 34

Wave height

Answer 34

Wind speed
How long the wind blows
Distance wind has blown(fetch)

Question 35

Longshore drift longshore current

Answer 35

Carry sediments to beaches parallel to shore

Question 36

Jetty

Answer 36

Reduce erosion
Rock or wood walls
1 side deposition other erosion

Question 37

Breakwaters

Answer 37

Reduce erosion

Walls to lose wave and their carry power

Question 38

Groyne

Answer 38

Fences to limit carrying power of waves

Reduce erosion

Question 39

Spits

Answer 39

Narrow sandbars

Finger points to direction wave is going

Question 40

Longshore drift

Answer 40

Zigzag movement of sand

Question 41

Longshore current

Answer 41

Waves travel at angle transport sand

Question 42

Barrier islands

Answer 42

Sandbars that build up

Question 43

Isolines

Answer 43

Connected points of equal value on map w/similar measurements

Question 44

Meandering streams

Answer 44

Inside = depósitos
Outside = erosion