Glaciers | Mass Movements | Erosion, Deposition, or Weathering | River Terms | True or False |
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What is Mountain or Valley glaciers?
A type of glacier
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What is The sliding down of a mass of earth or rock from a mountain or cliff?
Definition of landslide
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What is weathered rock being carried away by gravity, water, wind, or ice.
Definition of Erosion
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What is "S" shaped river
Definition of a meander
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What is true
Speed= ditance/time
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What is plucking?
Glaciers pick up rocks as they move
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What is a slow downslope movement of particles that occurs on every slope covered with loose, weathered material?
Definition of creep
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What is the breakdown of rocks with water, wind, or temperature
Definition of Weathering
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What is forms when a river meander gets pinched off
Defintion of an Ox Bow lake
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What is false
Cut bank is the inside of the meander
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What is till?
A mixture of different sized rocks left behind by glaciers
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What is a creep?
An old cemetery is an example of a...
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What is the relocation of rocks
Definiton of Depostition
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What is side of the river
Definition of a river bank
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What is true
Weathering means the breakdown of rock
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What is drumlin?
Long narrow, teardrop-shaped hill.
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What is a landslide?
Anakeesta ridge is an example of a...
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What is waves carrying sand
Example of deposition
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What is river bottom
Definition of River bed
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What is True
A creep moves slowly
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When was 9,000 years ago?
The last time Minnesota had glaciers on it
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What is an avalanche of rock?
Definition of a rock slide
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What is chemical or physical
Name the two types of weathering
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What is a smaller river that enters a larger river
Definition of Tributary
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What is false
A rockfall is slow
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