PRE ASSESSMENT - SIX LANDFORMS CREATED BY RIVER

How do glaciers shape the land?

• Through erosion, transportation, and deposition processes

• By melting, evaporating, and condensing

• Through volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and tornadoes

• By creating deserts, forests, and mountains

  
  

Discuss the impact of climate change on glaciers and landforms.

• Climate change leads to glaciers expanding and creating new landforms

• Climate change has no impact on glaciers and landforms

• Climate change causes glaciers to retreat but has no effect on landforms

• The impact of climate change on glaciers and landforms includes melting glaciers, increased erosion, sediment deposition, and altered river flow patterns.

Rivers create which of the following features by erosion?

• • Glaciers

• • Waterfalls

• • Deserts

• Forests

Which term describes a smaller stream or river that flows into a larger one?

• Tributary

• Delta

• Reservoir

• Peninsula

What is the process called when a glacier picks up rocks as it moves?

• Abrasion

• Plucking

• Erosion

• Deposition

Deposition occurs when a river loses energy. What does it leave behind?

• Fish  

• Boulders only           

• Sediment

• Clear water

What term describes the movement of sediment from one place to another?

• Weathering

• Transportation

• Carbonation

• Flooding

 A ______ is a big bend in a river. It starts as a slight bend. What do we call this landform?

• waterfall

• gorge

• V-shaped valley

• meander