GCSE Geomorphic Processes

How many types of erosion are there?

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How many types of transportation are there?

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How many types of mass movement are there?

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How many types of weathering are there?

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What does erosion mean?

• Leaves transported material behind, building up new land

• Downslope movement of a mass of surface materials, such as soil, rock, or mud

• Wearing away of the land by rivers or sea

• Breaking down or dissolving of rocks and minerals

• Carries away eroded material

What does transportation mean?

• Leaves transported material behind, building up new land

• Downslope movement of a mass of surface materials, such as soil, rock, or mud

• Wearing away of the land by rivers or sea

• Breaking down or dissolving of rocks and minerals

• Carries away eroded material

What does weathering mean?

• Leaves transported material behind, building up new land

• Downslope movement of a mass of surface materials, such as soil, rock, or mud

• Wearing away of the land by rivers or sea

• Breaking down or dissolving of rocks and minerals

• Carries away eroded material

What does mass movement mean?

• Leaves transported material behind, building up new land

• Downslope movement of a mass of surface materials, such as soil, rock, or mud

• Wearing away of the land by rivers or sea

• Breaking down or dissolving of rocks and minerals

• Carries away eroded material

What does deposition mean?

• Leaves transported material behind, building up new land

• Downslope movement of a mass of surface materials, such as soil, rock, or mud

• Wearing away of the land by rivers or sea

• Breaking down or dissolving of rocks and minerals

• Carries away eroded material

Which is the definition for hydraulic action?

• The process of rock being broken up by air being forced into cracks

• The process of erosion in which rocks and other hard materials in the water wear away the water channel or coast

• The process of rocks in the water bashing into and wearing each other down into smaller, rounder particles

• The process in which rocks slowly dissolve in water