1. Chapter 10 Study Guide Answers

2. What is released when waves break?
Energy

3. What do waves make when they break rock into small pieces?
Sand

4. What kind of pattern does a long shore current make?
Zigzag

5. Which way do sand dunes move?
In the direction of the wind

6. What is the steep side of a dune called?
Slip face

7. What is it called when sand jumps and bounces?
Saltation

8. What is a glacier?
A large mass of moving ice

9. Name two kinds of glaciers:
Continental and alpine

10. What is a sharp pyramid shaped peak called?
Horns

11. What is a sea cave?
Large holes in rocks at the base of sea cliffs

12. What is a sea stack?
Columns of rock that were once connected to the mainland

13. What is a sea arch?
Arches that form when waves erode a sea cave

14. What is a sea cliff?
Steep slopes that form when waves undercut the rock

15. Describe a mud flow:
A mass of mud that moves rapidly

16. Define mass movement:
Rock, soil, or snow that moves downhill

17. Describe a creep:
Rock and soil that moves downhill very slowly

18. Define rock fall:
Loose rocks that fall down a slope

19. What is a desert pavement?
A surface of rocks and pebbles created by wind

20. What is a medial moraine?
When two valley glaciers with moraines meet

21. What is a dune:
Mounds of sand left by the wind

22. What is an angle of repose:
The steepest angle at which loose material no longer moves downslope

23. What is deflation?
The process in which wind blows away fine sediment