Erosion and Deposition Quick check

What are the 4 agents of erosion?

• U-shaped Valley, V-shaped valley, Moraine, Sea Cave

• Compaction, cementation, sediment, deposition

• Water (Waves), Wind, Glaciers, Gravity

What Landform is created by a glacier?

• U shaped Valley

• V shaped valley

• Canyon

• Mountain

What landform is created by a fast moving river?

• U shaped Valley

• V shaped Valley

• Delta

• Marsh

What are the two ways waves can weather and erode rock?

• Erosion and Deposition

• Sea Cliff and Sea Cave

• Abrasion and plucking

• Impact and Abrasion

What are the two ways Glaciers weather and erode rock?

• Impact and Abrasion

• Abrasion and Plucking

• Abrasion and Deflation

• Erosion and Deposition

What are the two ways wind weather and erodes rock?

• Impact and Abrasion

• Abrasion and Plucking

• Erosion and Deposition

• Abrasion and Deflation

Waves can cause erosion to rocks on the shore. In what order do the landforms they create happen?

• Sea Cliff, Sea Cave, Sea, Arch, Sea Stack

• Sea Cliff, Sea Arch, Sea Cave, Sea Stack

• Sea Stack, Sea Arch, Sea Cave, Sea Cliff

• Sea Cave, Sea Cliff, Sea Stack, Sea Arch

What landform is created by river DEPOSITION when a river empties into a larger body of water.

• Marsh

• delta

• V- Shaped Valley

• Barrier Island

What is the crescent shaped landform on the left side of the picture?

• Meander

• Delta

• Marsh

• Oxbow Lake

What is the difference between erosion and deposition?

• Deposition is the process of moving sediment and erosion is the process of dropping sediment down.

• Erosion is the process of moving sediment and deposition is the dropping of sediment

• Erosion is the breaking down of rock and deposition is the building up of sediment

• Deposition is the breaking down of rocks to form sediment and erosion is the movement of sediment.