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Sandy Stuff!
Changing
What?
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Pretty Icy!
Terms
Large hills of wind blown sand
What are Sand Dunes?
Piles of sand & rock deposited
by moving water
What are sand bars?
Deposited sand or eroded rockpeople swim here
What are beaches?
The dropping of laying down of
rocks and soil
What is deposition?
These landscape features-caves
& pits are created by this
What is groundwater?
Are deposited material
What are sediments?
Water trapped in soil and rock
spaces
What is groundwater?
The carrying away of rocks, soil,
sand, and dirt (dump truck)
What is erosion?
The wearing away of the surface
of the earth Breaking rock into
smaller pieces (bulldozer)
What is weathering?
Wind, Water, Ice, People,
Natural Disasters
What are the 5 Agents of
Change?
Giant mass of packed snow and
ice
What are glaciers?
10,000 years ago
When North America was
covered by glaciers?
Alpine & Continental
What are the two types of
glaciers?
Ridges of long low piles of rock
and soil-left by glaciers
What are moraines?
A lake that is formed when
glaciers melt
What are kettle lakes?
A landform made by millions of
coral coverings
What is a coral reef?
Parts of the surface of the Earth,
which you can see
(Ex: plains, rocks, mountains,
and valleys)
What is landscape?
Sections of the Earth’s crust that
are higher than nearby areas
What are mountains?
A deep valley with steep sides
What are canyons?
Low areas between mountains
What are valleys?
Flat valley bottom along a river,
has rich soil
What is a floodplain?
Where a river empties into a
larger body of water, contains
rich soil
What is a delta?
Are features of the landscape
What are landforms?
Water
What is the most common agent
of change?
When large rocks dissolve in
water, large empty spaces are
formed
What are caves?