Mass Movement Review

Rocks shaped by windblown sediment are called

• barchans

• cirques

• moraines

• ventifacts

Rapidly flowing, often destructive mixtures of mud and water

• landslide

• mudslide

• rock slide

• creep

the rapid down slope movement of a mass of loose sediment

• avalanche

• landslide

• mudflow

• lahar

the slow, steady downhill movement of loose, weathered Earth materials

• creep

• landslide

• rockslide

• slump

Thick windblown deposits of fertile silt

• sand down

• loess

• lahar

• esker

Glaciers that form in low areas between two mountains

• valley glaciers

• continental glaciers

• mountain glaciers

• low area glaciers

Elongated landforms made of older moraines over which glaciers have moved are called

• drumlins

• kettle lakes

• eskers

• outwash plains

The underlying force that causes all forms of mass movement is

• friction

• gravity

• magnetism

• the Coriolis Effect

The finger lakes in New York were created by

• avalanches

• glaciers

• wind

• creep

Arch rocks are typically formed by

• ice

• wind

• water

• organisms