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weather erosion and deposition Flashcards

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define weathering

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the chemical and physical weathering of rocks near earth’s surface

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Define chemical weathering

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The breakdown of rock through a change in mineral or chemical composition

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What are two examples of chemical weathering

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  1. oxidation
  2. when water dissolves minerals
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What forms caves

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the chemical breakdown of underground limestone when rainwater picks up carbondioxide and become acid rain

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Define acid rain

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rainwater that picks up carrbon dioxid

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define physical weathering

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The breakdown of rock into smaller pieces without changing its chemical composition

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what are the 4 causes of physical weathering and explain them

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  1. Frost wedging - the repeated freezing and thawing of water within rocks -causes crack to become bigger and bigger
  2. plant root growth - root growth with in rock that breaks it apart
  3. abrupt temperature change - temperatur changes cause rocks stress which can result in change withing the rock like expansion and contraction
    4.ABRASION - when sediments moved by ice, water, wind or gravity grind against other rocks
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What are the factors that affect the rate and type of weathering and explain them

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  1. Exposure to Air- rocks abrove ground weather faster than rocks buried underground
  2. Particle Size - with equal volumes of rock smaller particle weather fasster than larger particles (larger particle have a greater surface area)
  3. Mineral composition - Different minerals weather at different rates based on their properties
  4. Climate -
    climates effects when chemical weathering works best and when physical weathering works best (chemical more effective in warm and moist and physical more effeictive in cold and moist)
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define erosion

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the movement of weathered rock

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what are the 6. agents of erosion

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Gravity, Running water and streams (most common transport agent of erosion), wind erosion, Glacial Erosion, Erosion due to waves and currents, erosion by humans

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Define gravity agents of erosion -

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The primary force behind most types of erosion

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12
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What creates mudslides

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gravity aided by water creates mudslides

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what is it called when gravity acts alone?

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mass wasting or mass movement

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How is sediment transported through streams?

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  1. dissolved minerals flow in solution
  2. Small sediments (clay) are suspended in the water
  3. larger sediment (pebbles) burow allong the bottom and become rounded THIS IS STREAM ABRASION
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how are valleys formed

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from river/ stream erosion and mass movemnt of rock

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What shape does a stream carve in a valley over time

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a V

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What are the three things that determine the velocity of a stream

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Gradients- Slope of the stream (as gradient increases so does stream velocity)
Discharge - volume of water in the stream (as discharge increases so does stream velocity)
Stream channel Shape - straightest streams flow faster than meandering streams

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What is the mouth of the stream

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THE END OF A STREAM

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How were the Finger lakes formed

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beggining of a stream that was carved by glaciersd

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meanders def -v

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when a stream bends and turns downstream

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What is a Channel-

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a waterway (or stream) that connects to areas of water

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What will happen as a stream flows through its channel?

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its velocity will change due to the curvature of the stream

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23
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What is wind erosion

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strong winds can pick up small particles (sand grains or smaller) and blown the about

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Examples of wind erosion and explain them

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Sandblasting - when winds blow sand or silt grains against rock causing abrasion
Deflation - when wind blows away loose sediment causing the land surface to lower

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Whats Glacial erosion -

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when glaciers move rock through movements, acts like sandpaper scratching away at earth’s surface

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Define a glacier -

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ice and snow that moves downhill under the influence of Gravity

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27
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How do glaciers move

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. Glaciers advance when more snow and ice is added
.glaciers retreat when they melt
* just like rivers glaciers flow faster in the middle

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What are glacial grooves

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grooves on earth’s surface that show the direction it moved

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What are glacial erratics -

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Large boulders that are picked up by the glacier and deposited ina new location

30
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what are glacial valleys

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vall carved by glaciers in a U shape

31
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explain crashing waves on rock

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When waves crash on rock it braeks it down into smaller and smaller pieces over tiem

32
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The pouding surf -

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A tremendous amounts of energy is released when waves break

33
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What is long shore drift

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water flwoing along the beach due to the repeated action of waves crashing onto the beach at an angle

34
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What helps lessen beach erosion

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Jetties

35
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Sandbar -

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bar of sand formed due to the deposition of wave erosion

36
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Erosion by humans -

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human activities such as contruction and deforestation expose more sedimetn, thereby incresing erosion

37
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Define deposition -

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Process by which the agents of erosion drop their sediment

38
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what are the two types of deposition

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deposition of solid sediments

precipitation - release of dissolved minerals such as salts from a water solution

39
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what does crystillization result in?

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ROCKS COMPOS3ED OF ONE ELEMTNT

40
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HOW DO HUMANS BENEFIT FROM DEPOSITION

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WE MINE MANY OF THE DEPOSITED SEDIMENTS FOR VARIOUS THINGS

41
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What causes deposition to occur

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deposition usually occurs when the velocity of a stream or wind slows or stops

42
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what is the rate of deposition

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howmuch is deposited over a distance

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how does velocity affect the rate of deposition

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as velocity decreases it will deposit the sediments it can no longer carry

44
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How do sediment characteristics affect the rate of deposition

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  1. sediment size- bigger sediments settle first when wind or water slows down
  2. sedment shape - the more rounded a sediment the faster it will settle out of air or water
  3. sediment density - the higehr the density the faster sediment will settle out of air
45
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As density increase what happens to settling raate and settling time

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settling time decreases and settling rate increases0

46
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When is deposition considered sorted?

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when the deposit has particles are simlar in size

47
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When is deposition considered unsorted

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when the deposit has mixed sediments

48
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What is vertical sorting

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When a mix of sediment settles out rapidly a layer graded bed forms with the sediment size increasing
from small to big

49
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What is horizontal sorting

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when streams enter oceans and gradually deposit sediment where the larger sedimetns settle first result in horizontal layers which decrease in sediment size with distance from the source

50
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UNSORTED GLACIAL AND MASS MOVEMENT DEPOSITS

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when glacier or gravity deposit their sediment the result is a maix of sizes shapes and densities (unsorted)

51
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Energy transformation in a stream

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the stream loses enrgy as it moves from its source to its mouth

52
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when is kinetic energy highest

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when theres erosion

53
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when is kinetic energy low

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when there is deposition

54
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How is a stream in a constant equilibrium

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when sediment is eroded upstream in eventually deposited downstream

55
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2where does more deposition occur

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in the floodplain

56
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where does most deposition occur in a strem and whast does it form

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mostly it occurs at the mouth formeing a delta

57
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What is a delta

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a fan shaped deposit of sediments at the end of a stream

58
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what happens to the sediments at the front of the glacier

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teh sediment is dropped in unsorted pils called morains

59
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what are drumlins

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unsorted glacial deposits shaped like an upside down spoon

60
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what are kettle lakes

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lakes formed from blocks of ice that break off of the glacier and creat a depression that reaches the water table

61
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what are outwash plains and how are they formed

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sorted deposits formed when glaciers melt and streams form carrying glacial sediment

62
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how are beaches formed

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when waves deposit sediment

63
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what happens if a sandbar is higher than sea levvel?

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tits considered a barrier island (fire island)

64
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how does wind deposit sediments

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it blowsm sand sized grains and smaller() clay and silt = dust

65
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WHAT DO AVALANCHES AND LANDSLIDES DEPOSIT ?

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UNSORTED SEDIMENT

66
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why cant we see craters everywhere on earth

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earths hydrospher and atmospher do a great jpb destroyign meteorites

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