Landform Activity for review
Apr 01, 2015
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