Chapter 8

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Front (Question)

dropping of sediment that occurs when an agent of erosion, such as gravity, a glacier, wind, or water, loses its energy and can no linger carry its load

Back (Answer)

deposition

Front (Question)

is a process that wears away surface materials and moves them form place to place

Back (Answer)

erosion

Front (Question)

any type of erosion that occurs as gravity moves materials down-slope

Back (Answer)

mass movement

Front (Question)

a type of mass movement that occurs when a mass of material moves down a curved slope

Back (Answer)

slump

Front (Question)

a type of mass movements in which sediments move down-slope very slowly; is common in areas of freezing and thawing, and can cause walls, trees, and fences to lean downhill

Back (Answer)

creep

Front (Question)

large, moving masses of ice and snow that change large areas of Earth’s surface through erosion and deposition

Back (Answer)

glacier

Front (Question)

process that adds gravel, sand, and boulders to a glacier’s bottom and sides was water freezes and thaws, breaking off pieces of surrounding rock

Back (Answer)

plucking

Front (Question)

mixture of differen-sized sediments that is dropped from the base of a retreating glacier and can cover huge areas of land

Back (Answer)

till

Front (Question)

large ridges of rocks and soil deposited by a glacier when it stops moving forward

Back (Answer)

moraine

#10

Front (Question)

material deposited by meltwater from a glacier

Back (Answer)

outwash

#11

Front (Question)

what are 3 ways to prevent erosion

Back (Answer)

retaining walls, vegetation, and wire/fences

#12

Front (Question)

how dose a glacier form

Back (Answer)

more snow accumulates than melts over time you have a large mass covering a min. of 40 acres and many ft. deep

#13

Front (Question)

why does a glacier flow down a hill

Back (Answer)

pressure causes the soil and snow to behave like a liquid and slowly flow downhill

#14

Front (Question)

what is found at bottom of a glacier where it is under a large amount of pressure

Back (Answer)

blue ice

#15

Front (Question)

what is the zone of flow

Back (Answer)

the blue ice

#16

Front (Question)

what is the zone of accumulation

Back (Answer)

the top with new snow

#17

Front (Question)

what are the 3 types of morains

Back (Answer)

terminal, medial, and lateral

#18

Front (Question)

what is a cirque

Back (Answer)

circular formation in a mt.

#19

Front (Question)

what is a horn

Back (Answer)

a 3 sided mt.

#20

Front (Question)

what is a tarn

Back (Answer)

a cirque filled with h2o

#21

Front (Question)

what are kettles

Back (Answer)

are formations made on plains by glaciers

#22

Front (Question)

what are tills

Back (Answer)

unstratified deposits of small rock and soil (glacial dirt)

#23

Front (Question)

what is calving and what does it make

Back (Answer)

a piece of ice ice breaks off into the ocean: icebergs

#24

Front (Question)

what are fiords

Back (Answer)

are created when a glacier goes into the ocean and scrapes out the land. The glacier melts and the ocean floods the area previously covered by a glacier