Wearing Down the Earth

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Wearing Down the Earth
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Water, Water Everywhere
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Hurricanes and Avalanches
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Climagraphs
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All about Groundwater
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Odds and Ends
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Wearing Down the Earth
Water, water Everywhere
Hurricanes and Avalanches
Odds and Ends
All about Groundwater
Climagraphs
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1-100
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Mechanical and Chemical
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1-100A
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What are the two types of weathering?
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1-200
This type of chemical weathering
creates sinkholes and under-ground caves.
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1-200A
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What is solution?
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1-300
Name three factors that influence the degree of
weathering of rock.
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1-300A
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What are type of rock, climate, slope and time?
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1-400
Heavily saturated ground can cause this.
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1-400A
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What is a mudslide?
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1-500
The three processes of gradation.
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1-500A
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What are weathering erosion and deposition?
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2-100
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The process of water entering soil or rocks.
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2-100A
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What is infiltration?
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2-200
The release of water vapour from plants through
pores in their leaves.
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2-200A
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What is (evapo) transpiration?
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This is also known as overland flow of water.
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2-300A
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What is surface runoff?
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The changing of water liquid into a vapour or
gas.
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2-400A
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What is evaporation?
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2-500
The movement of water found under the surface of
the ground.
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2-500A
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What is ground- water flow?
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3-100
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These three things are needed to form
a hurricane.
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3-100A
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What are moisture, warm water (gt27 C) and high
winds (gt119km/hr)
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3-200
The three main types of avalanches.
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3-200A
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What are wet snow, dry snow and slab?
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3-300
This is what the weather is like in the eye of
a hurricane.
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3-300A
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What is calm and clear?
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3-400
Almost everything gets damaged in this category
of hurricane.
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3-400A
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What is category 5?
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3-500
The three main parts of an avalanche.
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3-500A
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What are the starting zone, track and runout
zone?
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4-100
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5.6 degrees Celcius
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4-100A
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What is the growing season?
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4-200
When you subtract the maximum temperature from
the minimum temperature, one can find this.
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4-200A
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What is the temperature range?
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4-300
If there are 50 rainy days in a location each
year what is the probability of precipitation for
that location?
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4-300A
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What is 13.7?
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4-400
If there are 50 rain days during the year in a
location and a total of 1000mm of rain per
year, what is the intensity of precipitation
per rain event.
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4-400A
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What is 20mm/day?
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4-500
At least three factors that influence climate.
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4-500A
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What are latitude, air masses, altitude,
landforms and nearness to water?
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5-100
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This is the capacity to transmit water.
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5-100A
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What is permeability?
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This is the zone between the saturated and
unsaturated zone in an aquifer.
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What is the water table?
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These can form where water flows out
through cracks in the Earth's crust.
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5-300A
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What are springs?
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5-400
This taps into water from an aquifer and brings
water to the surface.
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5-400A
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What is an artesian well?
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This can happen if too much water is taken from
the ground too quickly.
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5-500A
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What is subsidence?
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6-100
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A tree trunk that is bent is a sign of this.
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6-100A
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What is creep?
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6-200
A hypothetical state where the land is flat and
smooth.
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6-200A
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What is base level?
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6-300
Rock which is broken down to form
weathered material.
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6-300A
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What is regolith?
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6-400
This causes a hurricane to spin clockwise in the
S. hemisphere and counter-clockwise in the N.
hemisphere.
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6-400A
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What is the Coriolis Effect?
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6-500
How water comes to the surface in an artesian
well.
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What is hydrostatic pressure?
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Final Jeopardy
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Name the four types of mechanical weathering.
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Contestants Please put down your writing tools
and wait for further instructions.
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What are frost shattering/ frost action, thermal
expansion, exfoliation/ sheeting and plant
animal action.
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That's all for today. Good luck on your test!
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