Erosion

Question 1

The process by which wind, water, ice, or gravity transports soil and sediment from one location to another.

Answer 1

Erosion

Question 2

The process by which rock materials are broken down by the action of physical or chemical processes.

Answer 2

Weathering

Question 3

The continuous movement of water from the ocean to the atmosphere to the land and back to the ocean.

Answer 3

Water Cycle

Question 4

the process of a substance in a liquid state changing to a gaseous state due to an increase in temperature and/or pressure.

Answer 4

Evaporation

Question 5

The change of state from a gas to a liquid.

Answer 5

Condensation

Question 6

Any form of water that falls to the earth’s surface from the cloud.

Answer 6

Precipitation

Question 7

the process of a liquid slowly passing through a filter.

Answer 7

Percolation

Question 8

Water that flows over the earth without being absorbed.

Answer 8

Runoff

Question 9

A stream that flows into a lake or into a larger stream.

Answer 9

Tributary

Question 10

The area of land that is drained by a water system.

Answer 10

Watershed

Question 11

a drainage divide on a continent such that the drainage basin on one side of the divide feeds into one ocean or sea, and the basin on the other side either feeds into a different ocean or sea

Answer 11

Continental Divide

Question 12

The process in which material is laid down.

Answer 12

Deposition

Question 13

A fan shaped mass of material deposited at the mouth of a stream.

Answer 13

Delta

Question 14

A fan-shaped mass of material deposited by a stream when the slope of the land decreases sharply.

Answer 14

Alluvial fan

Question 15

An area along a river that forms from sediment deposited when the river overflows its banks.

Answer 15

Floodplain

Question 16

The upper surface of underground water; the upper boundary of the zone of saturation.

Answer 16

Water table

Question 17

A facility that cleans the waste materials found in water that comes from sewers or drains.

Answer 17

Sewage treatment plants

Question 18

A tank that separates solid waste from liquids and that has bacteria that break down the solid waste.

Answer 18

Septic tank

Question 19

A column of rock formed on an ocean coast from erosion.

Answer 19

Sea stack

Question 20

An opening through a headland, formed by wave erosion or solution

Answer 20

Sea arch

Question 21

cave formed in a cliff by wave action of an ocean or lake

Answer 21

Sea cave

Question 22

gently sloping rock ledge that extends from the high-tide level at the steep-cliff base to below the low-tide level.

Answer 22

Wave-cut terraces

Question 23

a narrow area of land that sticks out into the sea

Answer 23

headlands

Question 24

An area of the shoreline made up of material deposited by waves.

Answer 24

Beach

Question 25

A large mass of moving ice.

Answer 25

Glacier

Question 26

The rock material carried and deposited by glaciers.

Answer 26

Glacial Drift

Question 27

Unsorted rock material that is deposited directly by a melting glacier.

Answer 27

Till

Question 28

A glacier deposit that has been sorted and layered by the action of streams or meltwater

Answer 28

Stratified Drift