1. 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

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

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

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

5. 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?

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

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

8. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

14. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

20. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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