5 Sci Ch 3

What type of mass movement can result in gravestones and fenceposts tilting at odd angles?

• landslide

• creep

• moraine

• kettle

What is the force that pulls rock and soil down slopes?

• kinetic energy

• gravity

• volume of flow

• turbulence

Waves erode the land through impact and

• abrasion

• plucking

The Missouri River can be called a tributary because it

• is a divide between the Midwest and the East

• flows into the Mississippi River

• flows into an oxbow lake on its flood plain

• is part of a karst topography

When a river flows out of a steep, narrow mountain valley, an alluvial fan forms because

• the river water speeds up

• the volume of flow decreases

• carbonic acid flows into cracks in the rock

• the river water slows down

Which of the following resulted in the Great Lakes of North America?

• mass movement

• water erosion

• glacial erosion

• wave erosion

The amount of sediment in a river is called its

• volume of flow

• turbulence

• alluvial fan

• load

The till deposited at the edge of a glacier forms a ridge called a(n)

• loess

• deposition

• load

• moraine

Because of longshore drift,

• sediment moves down a beach with the current

• glaciers create U-shaped valleys

• sediment particles roll and bounce downstream

• sand dunes form around boulders

A channel along which water is continually flowing down a slope is called:

• a rill

• a stream

• a till

• a divide