Weathering And Erosion Flashcards
Rocks or gravel left by a glacier
Debris
A slow process that breaks rocks into smaller pieces
Weathering
The carrying away of weathered pieces of rock
Erosion
Weathering that breaks down rock without changing the rock type
Physical
An unsorted mixture of debris dropped by a glacier
Glacial till
The bottom end of a glacier
Terminus
Features that form where glacier till builds up
Moraine
Erosion moves weathered rock from one place to another through
Water
Erosion moves weathered rock from one place to another through
Wind
Erosion moves weathered rock from one place to another through
Gravity
True or false-do rocks weather
True
True or false-is chemical weathering a real thing
True
True or false-can physical weathering crush someone
False
when the Colorado River eroded the land around the river in Arizona, the _______________ was formed
Grand Canyon
Glaciers form in very cold places as thick ___________ of ice
Sheets