..::SCIENCE TEST CHAP 12::..
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- till
- unsorted material
- down hill pull of gravity
- what are three methods?
- lahars
- mudflow w/ valcanic origin
- cape cod
- what is a good example of a barrier spit?
- conteinental glaciers
- make the land flat by moving everything forward?
- wave cut-terreces
- forms when a sea cliff is warn back?
- longshore current
- wht is a movement of water?
- energy
- as waves crash aginst a shore they relise __?
- desert pavement
- hard rockey surface consistion of pebbles and small broken frrocks?
- stratified drift
- sorted material
- glacier
- a large moving mass of frozen water?
- fine loose materials
- composed of _____ ______ _______ and have little veggitation to anchor the sediment in place?
- abrasion
- the grinding and wareing away of rocks through michanical weathering?
- dunes
- wht is a mound of wind deposited sand tht keeps its shape by the wind?
- shortens the wave length
- what are the three ways ocean floors effect the waves?
- crowd the lower part of the wave
- what are the three ways ocean floors effect the waves?
- beaches
- where is the place that the material is deposited?
- ie crystals slip past each other
- what are three methods?
- headlands
- finger shapped projection tht occurs when cliffs are formed?
- sand bar
- under water or exposed ridge of sand gravel or material?
- glacil drift
- the rock and material carried and deposited by glaciers
- deflation
- a form of wind erosion in witch fine dry soil particals are blown away?
- creep
- slow down hill movement of weathered rock and materials?
- deserts and coastlines
- landscapeds are commonly shaped by _____ and ____?
- angle of repose
- the steepest angle tht wont cause mass movement
- obsicals slows
- dunes are formed when wind hits an _____ and ____ it down?
- slump
- block of material moves down slope over a curvey surface?
- thicker
- = faster?
- aret
- jagged ridges tht form between 2 or more cirgues
- wave
- a moving ridge of water caused by wind tides or currents?
- weight causes the bottom of melt
- what are three methods?
- kettle lake
- formed due to continental glature
- alpine glaciers
- carve out rugged features through witch flow?
- out wash plain
- front of glaciers where water is carried?
- hanging valleys
- smaller glacier calley tht join the deeper main valley
- weight size shape
- wht three things can effect by wht?
- horns
- sharp pyrimid shaped peaks
- slip face
- STEEP sloped sides
- mud flow
- flowing of mud
- zig-zag
- in wht kinda way dose the longshore currents along the beach?
- saltation
- wht is the movment of sand or other sediments by short jumps and bounces tht is coused by wind and water?
- shoreline
- boundry between land and water?
- mass movement
- movement of a section of land down slope?
- barrier spit
- occurs when an exposed sandbar is connected to the shoreline?
- sea arch
- forms when waves cut completly through the rock?
- surf
- what are breaking waves?
- loose
- wht is very fine sediments deposited by wind?
- wave period
- wht is the time interval between breaking waves?
- sea stack
- off shore colums of rocks?
- increases in height
- what are the three ways ocean floors effect the waves?