Landform Activity for review. DESTRUCTIVE WEATHERING #1 A rock heats in the sun and cracks.

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Landform Activityfor review

DESTRUCTIVE WEATHERING

#1 A rock heats in the sun and

cracks

CONSTRUCTIVE DEPOSITION

RUNNING WATER

#2 A slowing stream drops its load of

sediments

CONSTRUCTIVE DEPOSITION

WIND

#3 Blown sand piles up along a line

of trees

DESTRUCTIVE WEATHERING

DISSOLVING

#4 Limestone at the Inner

Space Caverns in central Texas is dissolved by water

DESTRUCTIVE EROSION

WAVES

#5A Galveston beach shrinks

DESTRUCTIVE EROSION

RUNNING WATER

#6A deep hole forms at the base of a

waterfall

DESTRUCTIVE WEATHERING

#7Water seeps into a cracked brick, freezes, and

breaks apart of the brick away

DESTRUCTIVE EROSION

WIND

#8Blowing sand cuts a hole in a

sandstone cliff

DESTRUCTIVE EROSION

RUNNING WATER

#9The Colorado River flows through the

Grand Canyon

DESTRUCTIVE EROSION WIND

CONSTRUCTIVE DEPOSITION WIND

#10A strong wind shifts the position of a

sand dune

CONSTRUCTIVE DEPOSITION

• RUNNING WATER

#11A town is covered in mud after a flooded river returns to its banks

DESTRUCTIVE EROSION

GLACIER GRAVITY

#12A moving glacier plows the ground as

it slides down the valley

DESTRUCTIVE WEATHERING

#13

A rock freezes and cracks

DESTRUCTIVE WEATHERING

#14Roots grow into a cracked rock and

make crack larger

DESTRUCTIVE EROSION WIND

CONSTRUCTIVE DEPOSITION

#15Soil is blown from a west Texas field

and lands in east Texas

DESTRUCTIVE WEATHERING

DISSOLVING

#16Water dissolves buried limestone

CONSTRUCTIVE DEPOSITION

GLACIER GRAVITY

#17A glacier leaves a trail of rock and soil along side as it slides down a valley

DESTRUCTIVE WEATHERING

• WIND

#18Wind-blown sand smooths a boulder

DESTRUCTIVE EROSION

WAVES

#19The yard of a house on the beach

becomes smaller and smaller

CONSTRUCTIVE DEPOSITION

RUNNING WATER

#20A delta forms at the mouth of the

Mississippi

DESTRUCTIVE EROSION RUNNING WATER

CONSTRUCTIVE DEPOSITION

#21Water from a rainstorm washes loose soil from a flower bed onto the lawn

DESTRUCTIVE EROSION RUNNING WATER

CONSTRUCTIVE DEPOSITION

#22A river removes soil from the outside of a

curve and leaves it on the inside of a curve as it rounds the corner

DESTRUCTIVE WEATHERING

EROSION RUNNING WATER

#23Rock tumbling downstream are

broken into smaller pieces

DESTRUCTIVE WEATHERING

EROSION RUNNING WATER

#24Rock tumbling downstream are

broken into smaller pieces

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