WED Review

The natural chemical or physical processes that breaks down rock on Earth's surface.

• weathering
• erosion
• deposition
• jackhammering

The roots of plants break the rocks apart.

• Biological

• Exfoliating

• Abrasion

• Ice Wedging

Identify the type of Mass Waste represented by this diagram:

• Flow

• Fall

• Creep

• Slide

grinding away or rock or other surfaces as particles carried by wind, water, or ice scrape against them

• erosion

• longshore current

• moraine

• abrasion

flows parallel to the shoreline

• moraine

• longshore current

• meander

• outwash

rapid downhill movement of soil, loose rocks and boulders

• moraine

• talus

• landslide

• till

mound or ridge of unsorted sediment deposited by a glacier

• moraine

• outwash

• till

• talus

Identify this coastal feature formed by erosion and deposition.

• Sandbar

• Barrier Island

• Seacliff

• Beach

• Dune

The steeper the slope, the ________ the stream.

• Slower
• Broader
• Faster
• Curvier

Which particles will be transported by a stream moving at a velocity of 5 cm/s?

• pebbles, sand, silt, and clay, only

• sand, silt, and clay, only

• silt and clay, only

• clay, only