Jeopardy Vocab Water Glaciers and Wind Waves and Mass Wasting Misc. Final Jeopardy Vocab Water Glaciers and Wind Waves and Mass Wasting Misc. 100 200 300 400 500

Vocab-100 The removal of surface material through the process of weathering What is erosion?

Vocab-200 The process of moving eroded materials from one place to another. What is sediment transport?

Vocab-300 Dropping or leaving sediment behind What is deposition?

Vocab-400 When erosion occurs as material moves down a slope, whether triggered by snow, heavy rains, earthquakes, or human activity. What is mass wasting?

Vocab-500 Often used to piece together the geologic history of an area. What is surface sediment?

Water-100 The land area that gathers water for a major river. What is a drainage basin?

Water-200 As water flows downhill under the influence of gravity, water erodes the Earth’s surface, creating its own paths called ___________. What are channels?

Water-300 After a river floods and as floodwaters subside and drop their sediment load, _________ form along the valley sides. What are floodplains?

Water-400 A fan-shaped sediment deposit formed at the mouth of a river What is a delta?

Water-500 These form on the inside bends in a river channel, where the water speed is slowest What are sandbars?

Glaciers and Wind-100 A large mass of moving ice What is a glacier?

Glaciers and Wind-200 Deep grooves in rock caused by glaciers What are striations?

Glaciers and Wind-300 Material deposit by glaciers melting, composed of a collection of sediments ranging from small stones to large boulders. What is till?

Glaciers and Wind-400 Removal of small particles by wind, leaving heavier particles behind. What is deflation?

Glaciers and Wind-500 These form as wind moves sand-sized particles into distinct landforms. What are dunes?

Waves and Mass Wasting-100 Movement of water parallel to the shoreline What is longshore current?

Waves and Mass Wasting-200 Constant wave action can erode the base of coastal _______ causing their collapse into the sea. What are cliffs?

Waves and Mass Wasting-300 Landforms that are parallel to the shoreline What are sandbars?

Waves and Mass Wasting-400 Sandbars that extend into the water from land and curve back toward land in a hook shape. What are spits?

Waves and Mass Wasting-500 Concave, upward scars from which material has detached and moved downhill. What are slumps?

Miscellaneous-100 Ridges of till that accumulate at the edge and end of a glacier. What is a moraine?

Miscellaneous-200 Glacial deposits in flat outwash plains often become this. What is fertile soil that support plant growth?

Miscellaneous-300 _________ often takes place on steep slopes or on slopes that lack vegetation. What is mass wasting?

Miscellaneous-400 Geologists can locate ancient landslides by their ______________ sediment structure. What is disorganized?

Miscellaneous-500 Ice sheets that occupy large land areas in colder climates-especially in Greenland and Antarctica. What are continental glaciers?

Final Jeopardy The age of a river can be determined from ________. What is the shape of its channel?