ANALYSIS QUESTIONS

LABORATORY INVESTIGATION 4-3
EROSION
ANALYSIS QUESTIONS

1. What is another name for wind erosion?

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2. What formations are created by wind?

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3. What three different ways do streams erode their banks?

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4. What three places can streams erode?

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5. What kind of erosion do ways cause?

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6. Why are glaciers more powerful than water as an erosive force?

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7. What is plucking?

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8. Describe three areas that wind erosion takes place.

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9. What is deflation?

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10. Where does deflation usually occur?

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11. What is abrasion?

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12. What are three ways water can erode the land?

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13. Describe the three stages of rivers.

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14. What is the shape of the valleys that rivers produce?

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15. Give three examples of structures formed from wave erosion.

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16. Give five examples of coastal deposition structures.

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17. What causes waves to move?

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18. Describe how waves erode.

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19. Describe what water runoff is.

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20. When does runoff increase?

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21. What affects runoff?

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22. Describe how slope affects runoff.

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23. What are glaciers?

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24. How do glaciers form?

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25. How do glaciers erode?

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26. What debris is left by glaciers?

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27. What shape are glacial valleys?

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28. What is moraine?

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29. What is till?

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30. What are striations?

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31. What is a cirque?

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32. What is a horn?

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33. Describe how gravity erodes the land.

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34. What are mudflows

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35. What is a landslide?

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36. What is creep?

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37. What is a slump?

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