Surface Of The Earth Vocabulary

Test Description: Surface of the Earth Vocabulary

Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.

1) What is the process by which sediment and other materials are moved from one place to another.

2) What is the process by which eroded materials are dropped?

3) What is the process of the breaking down of rock into smaller pieces?

4) What is the measure of the change in elevation over a certain distance?

5) The materials carried by a stream is referred to as the streams ______.

6) What is the amount of water a stream carries in a given amount of time?

7) What is water located within the rocks below Earth's surface?

8) A large mass of moving ice that forms by compacting of snow by natural forces is known as a

9) What is the general term for all of the materials carried and deposited by a glacier?

10) Thick deposits of sediment are known as ___________.

11) What are mounds of wind deposited sand?

12) What is the area where streams often deposit their load in a fan shaped pattern; very rich in sediment and nutrients known as?

13) What is a flat area with many layers of deposited sediment known as?

14) What is a fan shaped deposit that forms on dry land?

15) What is the place where land and a body of water meet?

16) Erosion NOT caused by which of the following?

17) What is a sudden rapid movement of a large amount material downslope?

18) What is it called when loose rocks fall down a steep slope?

19) What is a rapid movement of a large mass of mud?

20) What is an area of the crust that caves in due to erosion by groundwater of the bedrock below?


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