2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2pt 3 pt 4pt 5 pt 1pt 2pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4pt 5 pt 1pt Sandy Stuff! Changing What? Pretty Icy! How High Can You Go? Terms
Large hills of wind blown sand
What are Sand Dunes?
Piles of sand & rock deposited by moving water
What are sand bars?
Deposited sand or eroded rock- people swim here
What are beaches?
The dropping of laying down of rocks and soil
What is deposition?
These landscape features-caves & pits are created by this
What is groundwater?
Are deposited material
What are sediments?
Water trapped in soil and rock spaces
What is groundwater?
The carrying away of rocks, soil, sand, and dirt (dump truck)
What is erosion?
The wearing away of the surface of the earth Breaking rock into smaller pieces (bulldozer)
What is weathering?
Wind, Water, Ice, People, Natural Disasters
What are the 5 Agents of Change?
Giant mass of packed snow and ice
What are glaciers?
10,000 years ago
When North America was covered by glaciers?
Alpine & Continental
What are the two types of glaciers?
Ridges of long low piles of rock and soil-left by glaciers
What are moraines?
A lake that is formed when glaciers melt
What are kettle lakes?
A landform made by millions of coral coverings
What is a coral reef?
Parts of the surface of the Earth, which you can see (Ex: plains, rocks, mountains, and valleys)
What is landscape?
Sections of the Earth’s crust that are higher than nearby areas
What are mountains?
A deep valley with steep sides
What are canyons?
Low areas between mountains
What are valleys?
Flat valley bottom along a river, has rich soil
What is a floodplain?
Where a river empties into a larger body of water, contains rich soil
What is a delta?
Are features of the landscape
What are landforms?
Water
What is the most common agent of change?
When large rocks dissolve in water, large empty spaces are formed
What are caves?