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Erosion- Define and contrast weathering and erosion
- List the major agents of erosion
- Distinguish between mechanical and chemical weathering
- Identify and describe methods of mech/chem weathering
- Identify factors that control the rate at which a rock weathers
- Describe the three ways that running water breaks up bedrock
- Explain the relationship between stream velocity and discharge and carrying power
- Explain how rivers carve out canyons and V-Shaped valleys
- Describe features of young, mature, and old rivers and explain how the features form: 1) waterfalls, 2) meanders
- Define porosity and permeability
- Describe some factors that control porosity/permeability
- Describe some features of groundwater
- Describe erosional/depositional features of groundwater
- Explain how a glacier forms and moves
- Distinguish between alpine and continental glaciers
- Describe ways that continental glaciers erode the land
- List some features of glacial deposition and explain how the features form
- Describe several hypotheses for the occurrence of the Ice Ages
