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WIND Chapter 6 Test 3 material End EOLIAN EQUALS WIND EROSION + WIND TRANSPORT + WIND DEPOSITION EROSIONAL CAPACITY OF WIND ABILITY FOR WIND TO MOVE MATERIALS IS SMALL COMPARED TO ICE (GLACIERS) & WATER (RIVERS) DEFLATION THE REMOVAL AND LIFTING OF INDIVIDUAL LOOSE PARTICLES DESERT PAVEMENT BLOWOUT DEPRESSIONS RANGE IN SIZE FROM A FEW FEET DEEP AND A FEW FEET ACROSS TO 150 FEET DEEP AND SEVERAL MILES ACROSS ABRASION PARTICLES PICKED UP BY WIND CAN RUB ACROSS SOLID ROCK THEREBY FILING IT AWAY SIMILAR TO SANDPAPER WIND TRANSPORTATION SALTATION - SKIPPING AND BOUNCING SURFACE CREEP ERG SAND SEA THAT MOVES AS A UNIT SAND DUNE MOVEMENT STOSS - WIND LEE - WHERE SLIP FACE OCCURS DUNE FORMS BARCHAN TRANSVERSE PARABOLIC LONGITUDINAL STAR LOESS DEPOSITS OF WIND BLOWN SOIL MAY COME FROM DESERT REGIONS SUCH AS THE GOBI DESERT IN CHINA WHERE DEPOSITS OF 100-400 FEET OCCUR. YELLOW RIVER GLACIAL /PERIGLACIAL REGIONS ALONG ILLINOIS & MISSISSIPPI RIVERS WITH 300 INCHES DEEP WHY IS THERE A DESERT HERE? EASTERN FLANK OF THE SUBTROPICAL HIGHS ARID LANDFORMS PLAYA IS SALT CRUSTS LEFT BY RUNOFF WATERS THAT EVAPORATE ALLUVIAL FAN - MOUTH OF CANYON WHERE WATER EXITS INTO A VALLEY BAJADA - INDIVIDUAL ALLUVIAL FANS COALESCE INTO ONE SLOPING SURFACE PLAYA ALLUVIAL FAN & BAJADA TEST 3 REVIEW FROST WEDGING IS AN EXAMPLE OF MECHANICAL WEATHERING CHEMICAL WEATHERING MECHANICAL EROSION CHEMICAL EROSION CORRECT RESPONSE IS MECHANICAL WEATHERING ILLUSTRATES DIFFERENTIAL WEATHERING & EROSION SANDSTONE SHALE LIMESTONE CONGLOMERATE CORRECT RESPONSE IS LIMESTONE TRUE OF IMPERMEABLE ROCK WATER FLOWS THROUGH IT IT CONDUCTS GROUNDWATER IN USABLE AMOUNTS AQUIFERS ARE MADE UP OF IT ALL ARE TRUE NONE ARE TRUE CORRECT RESPONSE IS NONE ARE TRUE HYDRAULIC ACTION IN A STREAM IS DUE TO: TURBULENCE IN WATER STREAM LOAD STREAM PROFILE STREAM LENGTH CORRECT RESPONSE IS TURBULENCE IN WATER THE PHREATIC ZONE IS ABOVE THE WATER TABLE AT THE WATER TABLE BELOW THE WATER TABLE ABOVE THE SOIL-ROOT ZONE CORRECT RESPONSE IS BELOW THE WATER TABLE HIGH MOUNTAIN STAIR-STEP LAKES IN GLACIAL AREA PATERNOSTER ARETE NUNATAK FIORD CORRECT RESPONSE IS PATERNOSTER EOLIAN REFERS TO WIND EROSION WIND TRANSPORT WIND DEPOSITION ALL OF THESE NONE OF THESE CORRECT IS ALL OF THESE A PLAYA IS INDIVIDUAL ALLUVIAL FANS COALESCING TOGETHER SALT CRUSTS LEFT BY RUNOFF WATER THAT EVAPORATED TYPE OF SAND DUNE SAND SEA MOVING AS A UNIT CORRECT RESPONSE IS SALT CRUSTS WHICH DO FIND IN AN OLD-AGE STREAM? DEEP V-SHAPED VALLEYS STRAIGHT STREAM STEEP GRADIENT MANY OXBOW LAKES CORRECT RESPONSE IS MANY OXBOW LAKES WHO WROTE YOUR TEXTBOOK? STEVE BLACKMAN BOB DENNISON FRODO BAGGINS ED TARBUCK FRED LUTHMANN ANSWER: ED TARBUCK LINK TO REVIEWSHEET http://www.hcc.cc.il.us/staff/bobd/easc121tr3.htm l