Landform Activity
for review
#1
A rock heats in the desert sun,
cools at night, and cracks
DESTRUCTIVE
WEATHERING
EXTREME TEMPERATURE
#2
A slowing stream drops its load of
sediments
CONSTRUCTIVE
DEPOSITION
WATER (Physical)
#3
Blown sand piles up along a line
of trees
CONSTRUCTIVE
DEPOSITION
WIND
#4
Limestone at the Inner
Space Caverns in central
Texas is dissolved by water
DESTRUCTIVE
WEATHERING
WATER (Chemical)
#5
A Galveston, TX beach shrinks
DESTRUCTIVE
EROSION
WAVES
#6
A deep hole forms at the base of a
waterfall
DESTRUCTIVE
EROSION
WATER (Physical)
#7
Water seeps into a cracked brickledge,
freezes, expands, and breaks apart the brick
DESTRUCTIVE
WEATHERING
WATER (Phys)
#8
Blowing sand cuts a hole in a
sandstone cliff
DESTRUCTIVE
EROSION
WIND
#9
The Colorado River flows through the
Grand Canyon
DESTRUCTIVE
EROSION
WATER (Physical)
#10
Strong breezes shift the position of a
sand dune
DESTRUCTIVE
CONSTRUCTIVE
EROSION
WIND or
DEPOSITION WIND
#11
A town is covered in mud after a
flooded river returns to its banks
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CONSTRUCTIVE
DEPOSITION
WATER (Physical)
#12
A moving mass of ice plows the
ground as it slides down the valley
DESTRUCTIVE
EROSION
GLACIER or GRAVITY
#13
Ice repeatedly forms and thaws,
expanding a crack in a rock
DESTRUCTIVE WEATHERING
WATER (Physical)
#14
Roots grow into a cracked rock and
make crack larger
DESTRUCTIVE WEATHERING
PLANT ACTION
#15
Soil is blown from a west Texas field
and lands in east Texas (The Dust Bowl Era)
DESTRUCTIVE EROSION
WIND or
CONSTRUCTIVE DEPOSITION WIND
#16
Water dissolves buried limestone now
exposed at the surface
DESTRUCTIVE WEATHERING
WATER (Chemical)
#17
Moving ice pushes/scrapes up rock
and soil as it slides down a valley
CONSTRUCTIVE DEPOSITION
GLACIER or GRAVITY
#18
Strong breezes pick up sand
and smoothen a boulder
DESTRUCTIVE WEATHERING
WIND
#19
The yard of a house on the beach
becomes smaller and smaller
DESTRUCTIVE EROSION
WAVES
#20
Natural levees and a delta forms at the
mouth of the Mississippi River (Louisiana)
CONSTRUCTIVE DEPOSITION
WATER (Physical)
#21
Water from a rainstorm washes loose
soil from a flower bed onto the lawn
DESTRUCTIVE EROSION WATER (Physical) or
CONSTRUCTIVE DEPOSITION WATER (Physical)
#22
A river removes soil from the outside of a
curve and leaves it on the inside of a curve as it
rounds the corner
DESTRUCTIVE EROSION WATER (Physical)
CONSTRUCTIVE DEPOSITION WATER (Physical)
#23
Rock tumbling downstream are
broken into smaller pieces
DESTRUCTIVE WEATHERING or EROSION
WATER (Physical)
#24
Rock tumbling downstream are
broken into smaller pieces
DESTRUCTIVE WEATHERING or EROSION
WATER (Physical)