Landform Activity

Landform Activityfor review

DESTRUCTIVE WEATHERING

#1 A rock heats in the sun and

cracks

CONSTRUCTIVE DEPOSITIONRUNNING WATER

#2 A slowing stream drops its load of

sediments

CONSTRUCTIVE DEPOSITIONWIND

#3 Blown sand piles up along a line

of trees

DESTRUCTIVE WEATHERINGDISSOLVING

#4 Limestone at the Inner

Space Caverns in central Texas is dissolved by water

DESTRUCTIVE EROSIONWAVES

#5A Galveston beach shrinks

DESTRUCTIVE EROSIONRUNNING 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 EROSIONWIND

#8Blowing sand cuts a hole in a

sandstone cliff

DESTRUCTIVE EROSIONRUNNING WATER

#9The Colorado River flows through the

Grand Canyon

DESTRUCTIVE EROSIONCONSTRUCTIVE DEPOSITION WIND

#10A strong wind shifts the position of a

sand dune

CONSTRUCTIVE DEPOSITION

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

DESTRUCTIVE EROSIONGLACIER GRAVITY

#12A moving glacier plows the ground as

it slides down the valley

DESTRUCTIVE WEATHERING

#13A 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

#18Wind-blown sand smooths a boulder

DESTRUCTIVE EROSIONWAVES

#19The yard of a house on the beach

becomes smaller and smaller

CONSTRUCTIVE DEPOSITION RUNNING WAVES

#20Natural levees and a delta form 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