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Question: What's mechanical weathering? |
Answer: Physically breaking rocks into pieces. |
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Question: What's chemical weathering? |
Answer: Breaking down rocks through chemical changes. |
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Question: What's weathering? |
Answer: The process that breaks down rocks on Earth's surface. |
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Question: What's Erosion? |
Answer: Forces move sediments from place to place. |
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Question: What's deposition? |
Answer: When sediments are laid down after being eroded. (Bank of rocks on the side of a river) |
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Question: Is the flow of water faster near deposition or erosion?
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Answer: Erosion. (Deposition is slower, Erosion is faster) |
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Question: What's the #1 cause of erosion? |
Answer: Water |
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Question: What is a delta?
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Answer: Sediment deposited when a river flows into a larger body of water. |
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Question: What is an alluvial fan? |
Answer: Fan shaped deposit of sediment from a mountain street onto a flat, dry valley. |
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Question: What's a slump? |
Answer: When 1 large mass of soil slips down a slope.
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Question: What is a creep? |
Answer: Very slow downhill mass movement. |
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Question: What is a loess? |
Answer: Smallest wind deposited sediments. |
