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Abrasion |
The process of wearing and scraping something away |
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Aeolian Process |
The winds ability to shape the surface of the Earth |
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Alluvial Fan |
Triangle shaped deposit of sediments, usually occurs when flowing water interacts with mountains or steep walls of canyons |
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Anticline |
A ridge or fold of stratified rock |
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Basalt |
A dark-fined volcanic rock that sometimes displays columnar structure |
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Biological Weathering |
When animals and plants help weaken rock surface |
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Butte |
Isolated hill similar to a messa but narrower |
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Canyon |
a deep gorge, usually with a river flowing through |
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Cenote |
A natural underground reservoir of water |
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Chemical Weathering |
The erosion or disintegration of rocks caused by chemical reaction |
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Coastal desert |
Colder waters parallel to the coast |
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Cone |
a triangle-shaped hill formed as material from volcanic eruptions piles up around the volcanic vent |
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Constructive Ridge |
a divergent tectonic plate or constructive plate boundary located along the floor of the Atlantic Ocean |
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continental drift |
the gradual movement of the continents across the earth's surface through geological time |
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convergent boundaries |
is an actively deforming region where two (or more) tectonic plates or fragments of the lithosphere move toward one another and collide |
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Deflation |
the removal of particles of rock, sand, etc. by the wind |
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destructive trenches |
this is where 2 plates, 1 made of continental crust and one made of ocean crust collide and one gets destroyed. |
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divergent boundaries |
is a linear feature that exists between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other |
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Dreamtime |
· Dreaming is when all things began,
· The landscape was created by beings who wandered the earth. Aboriginal and torres straight islander beliefs. |
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Dune |
a mound or ridge of sand or other loose sediment formed by the wind |
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East African Rift Valley |
The East African Rift is an active continental rift zone in East Africa |
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ergs |
s a broad, flat area of desert covered with wind-swept sand with little or no vegetative cover |
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Extrusive Volcanism |
he mode of igneous volcanic rock formation in which hot magma from inside the Earth flows out \ onto the surface as lava or explodes violently |
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fluvial erosion |
Fluvial processes include the motion of sediment and erosion or deposition on the river bed |
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fold mountains |
formed when two of the tectonic plates that make up the Earth's crust push together at their border (forces edges of plates up into a series of folds) |
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glacial erosion |
Movement of soil or rock from one point to another by the action of the moving ice of a glacier. |
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Gondwanaland |
the more southerly of two supercontinents that were part of the Pangaea supercontinent, broke and formed australia, antartica, south america, africa. |
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Trench |
an elongated block of the earth's crust lying between two faults and displaced downwards relative to the blocks on either side, as in a rift valley |
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Hamada |
a type of desert landscape consisting of high, largely barren, hard, rocky plateaus |
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Horst |
1. a raised elongated block of the earth's crust lying between two faults. |
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Hotspot |
an area of volcanic activity |
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Ice sheet |
a layer of ice covering an extensive tract of land for a long period of time |
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Igneous |
(of rock) having solidified from lava or magma. |
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Inselberg |
an isolated hill or mountain rising abruptly from a plain |
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intrusive volcanism |
when magma is forced into the rocks that make up the Earth's crust |
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Laccolith |
a mass of igneous rock, typically lens-shaped, that has been intruded between rock strata causing uplift in the shape of a dome |
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Landform |
a natural feature of the earth's surface |
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Landscape |
all the visible features of an area of land, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal |
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Magma |
hot fluid or semi-fluid material below or within the earth's crust from which lava and other igneous rock is formed on cooling. |
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Metamorphic |
denoting or relating to rock that has undergone transformation by heat, pressure, or other natural agencies |
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Oasis |
is an isolated area of vegetation in a desert, typically surrounding a spring or similar water source |
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onion skin weathering |
* rock is repeatedly subjected to heat and cold |
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Pangaea |
the hypothetical landmass that existed when all continents werejoined, from about 300 to 200 million years ago. |
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Peninsula |
an area of land almost completely surrounded by water except for anisthmus connecting it with the mainland. |
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physical weathering |
any of the various weathering processes that cause physical disintegration of exposed rock without any change in the chemicalcomposition of the rock |
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Tray |
a land area having a relatively level surface considerably raised above adjoining land on at least one side, and often cut by deep canyons |
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Beaches |
an area of flat, dried-up land, especially a desert basin from which water evaporates quickly |
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Rainshadow |
a region having little rainfall because it is sheltered from prevailing rain-bearing winds by a range of hills |
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Right |
is a type of desert landscape consisting of high, largely barren, hard, rocky plateaus, with very little sand because this has been removed by deflation |
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Ring of Fire |
the linear zone of seismic and volcanic activity that coincides in generalwith the margins of the Pacific Plate. |
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San Andreas fault |
It forms the tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate, |
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Sedimentary |
(of rock) that has formed from sediment deposited by water or air |
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Strait |
a narrow passage of water between two areas of land, usually connecting two seas |
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Subduction |
the sideways and downward movement of the edge of a plate of the earth's crust into the mantle beneath another plate |
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Submarine |
ocean trench |
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Synclines |
a trough or fold of stratified rock in which the strata slope upwards from the axis
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tectonic plates |
the two sub-layers of the earth's crust that move, float, and sometimes fracture and whose interaction causes continental drift,earthquakes, volcanoes, mountains, and oceanic trenches |
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Terrestrial |
pertaining to, consisting of, or representing the earth as distinct from other planets. |
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transform boundaries |
a type of fault whose relative motion is predominantly horizontal in either sinistral or dextral direction |
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Tough |
Tuff can be classified as either sedimentary or igneous rocks |
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wind |
the top of the volcano where lava comes out |
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side vent |
The side of a volcano where lava comes out |
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volcanic plug |
when magma hardens within a vent on an active volcano |
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yardang |
1. a sharp irregular ridge of sand lying in the direction of the prevailing wind in exposed desert regions, formed by the wind erosion of adjacent material which is less resistant. |
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wadi |
a dry gully or riverbed eroded by occasional flash floods |
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blah |
blah means balh |