27.2 Flashcards
(34 cards)
What is the difference between weathering and erosion?
Weathering is the breakdown of materials while erosion is the removal of materials
What happens to the river speed if the slope decreases
The river speed decreases
What are Small streams that flow into larger rivers called?
Tributaries
What are Land area that gather waters for a major river called?
Drainage Basin
What is a boundary that separates distinct drainage basins called
drainage divide
What is made when water flows downhill under the influence of gravity water erode earths surface?
channels
What is shape is made when young rivers have fast movement?
V-shaped
What is the name of rivers that are wide with smooth gentle slopes
Mature Rivers
When Rivers flood and drop their sediment load which type of land form is created?
Flood Plains
What are the fan-shapes sediment deposit that form at the mouth of a river.
Deltas
What are the branching channels that are created by deltas
Distributors
What forms where the mouth of a river or stream enter dry land
Alluvial Fans
What are the two types of glaciers
Valley and Continental
What are the two types of glaciers
Valley and Continental
Where do valley glaciers form?
In High Mountainous regions.
Where do continental glaciers form?
In Ice sheets that occupy large land areas in colder climates
Where is the two continental glaciers located
Greenland and Antarctica
What are Cirques?
A Bowl Shaped basins
What is a Arete
They are Where 2 adjacent valley glaciers meet and erode a long, sharp ridgeline
What is a horn
sharpened peaks
What shape do Valley Glaciers create
U-shaped valleys
What are tributary glaciers
Small glaciers that feed into the large glaceriers
What type of valley do tributary glaciers create?
Hanging valleys
On which side of a dune does erosion occur?
The Windward side
