FREE SCIENCE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT UNIT 8

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FREE SCIENCE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT UNIT 8

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Question 1: the process by which other chemicals combine with oxygen

Answer:

oxidation

Question 2: the water located within the rocks below Earth's surface...

Answer:

groundwater

Question 3: the measure of the changed in elevation over a certain distance

Answer:

gradient Question 4: when fossil fuels are burned, other chemicals combine with water in the atmosphere to produce even stronger acids. When these stronger acids fall to Earth, they are called...

Answer:

acid precipitation

Question 5: how can wind shape Earth

Answer:

abraded rock, desert pavement, dunes and loess

Question 6: what kinds of ice shape Earth

Answer:

flowing ice, alpine glaciers, and continental glaciers Question 7: the breaking down and wearing away of rock material by the mechanical action of other rock

Answer:

abrasion

Question 8: how can gravity shape earth

Answer:

slow mass movement, rapid mass movement,

Question 9: what factors relate to a stream's ability to erode material

Answer:

gradient, load, and discharge Question 10: common features in cave systems as dissolved chemicals are deposited by dripping water underground

Answer:

stalactites and stalagmites

Question 11: what coastal landforms are made by deposition

Answer:

beaches, sandbars and barrier islands

Question 12: sudden and rapid movement of a large amount of material downslope

Answer:

landslide

Question 13: a deposit, formed by sediment, that accumulates at the mouth of a river

Answer:

delta

Question 14: thick deposits of the windblown, fine-grained sediment

Answer:

loess Question 15: when a stream floods, a layer of sediment is deposited over the flooded land.Many layers of deposited sediment can form a flat area called.....

Answer:

floodplain

Question 16: the place where land and a body of water meet

Answer:

shoreline

Question 17: removal of fine sediment by wind

Answer:

deflation

Question 18: when loose rocks fall down a steep slope

Answer:

rockfall Question 19: the process by which sediment and other materials are moved from one place to another

Answer:

erosion

Question 20: amount of water that a stream carries in a given amount of time

Answer:

discharge

Question 21: sharp ridge that forms between two cirques that are next to each other

Answer:

arete Question 22: large, natural stream of water that flows into an ocean or other large body of water, such as a lake

Answer:

river

Question 23: cause a rock to contract

Answer:

decrease in temperature Question 24: temperature changes, pressure changes, plant and animal actions, water, wind, and gravity

Answer:

agents of physical weathering Question 25: the process by which eroded material is dropped, when gravity's downward pull on sediment is greater than the push of flowing water or wind slows down

Answer:

deposition

Question 26: materials carried by a stream

Answer:

load

Question 27: what forces shape a shoreline

Answer:

waves and currents Question 28: first part of the shoreline the waves meet...finger-shaped projections that form when cliffs of hard rock erode more slowly than the surrounding softer rock does.....

Answer:

headlands