Erosion

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Total cards: 24•Content version: v4•Public deck•Updated: 8/1/2026

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Front (Question)

What is a Landslide?

Back (Answer)

Sediments/Boulders/Rock/Soil that goes downhill fast

Front (Question)

What is an Avalanche?

Back (Answer)

Snow + Soil/Rock that goes downhill fast

Front (Question)

What is a Mudslide?

Back (Answer)

Mud + Soil/Rock that goes downhill fast

Front (Question)

What is a Creep?

Back (Answer)

Soil/Rock that goes downhill SLOW

Front (Question)

What is a Beach Sand Dune?

Back (Answer)

Pile of Sand at the back of a beach

Front (Question)

What is a Beach

Back (Answer)

Space between dunes and water

Front (Question)

What is Desert Pavement

Back (Answer)

Pebbles and gravel left behind after sand silt and clay is blown away

Front (Question)

What is a Desert Sand Dune?

Back (Answer)

Pile of sand in desert

Front (Question)

What is a Moraine?

Back (Answer)

Piles of sediments left behind along the sides and ends of a glacier

#10

Front (Question)

What is a Erratic

Back (Answer)

Non-native rock left behind by a glacier

#11

Front (Question)

What is a Drift

Back (Answer)

Anything carried by the glacier

#12

Front (Question)

What is a U-Shaped Valley

Back (Answer)

Valley between mountains in the shape of a U

#13

Front (Question)

What is a Sand Bar

Back (Answer)

A extension of sand across an opening

#14

Front (Question)

What is a Delta

Back (Answer)

Fan-Shaped pile of sediment at the mouth of a river emptying into the ocean

#15

Front (Question)

What is a Meander

Back (Answer)

A curve in a river that gets more curvier because faster moving water on the outside of the curve erodes the outside edge and the slow moving water deposits sediments in the inside edge

#16

Front (Question)

What is a Flood Plain

Back (Answer)

Area covered by a river when it floods, extremly fertile

#17

Front (Question)

What is a Levee

Back (Answer)

Piles of sediement along the sides of a river because the water drops sediment when it floods

#18

Front (Question)

What is a Waterfall

Back (Answer)

Forms where flowing water undercuts softer rock that is below harder rock

#19

Front (Question)

What is a Canyon

Back (Answer)

Steepsided water cut by fast rivers

#20

Front (Question)

What is a V-Shaped Valley?

Back (Answer)

Steep-sided valley formed by rivers eroding downward(Rivers only touch the bottom of the valley)

#21

Front (Question)

List the sediments in size order from biggest to smallest

Back (Answer)

Boulder,cobble,pebble,sand,silt,clay

#22

Front (Question)

What 2 things does a delta need in order to form?

Back (Answer)

Sediment-enriched flow of water and calm ocean the water pours into

#23

Front (Question)

List any 3 erosion land form that is depositing/Constructive.

Back (Answer)

Beach Sand Dune, Moraines, Erratic, Drift,Sand Bar, Delta, Floodplain, Levee

#24

Front (Question)

List any 3 erosion land form that is removing sediment/destructive.

Back (Answer)

Landsilde, Avalanche, Creep, Mudslide, Desert “Pavement”, U-shaped valley, waterfall, canyon, V-shaped valley