Why can Loess be carried further than wind?
Loess can be carried further than sand because loess ways less than sand so wind can pick loess up easier.
How does wind and glaciers abrade rock?
Wind abrades rock by sandblasting, this is the process in which wind causes the blowing of millions of grains of sand, which bumps across the surface of rocks’ surface. As glaciers move forwad, the material that they picked up scratch and abrade the rock and soil underneath the glacier, which causes erosion.
When wind moves soil sand and rock particles it acts as an agent of?
Erosion by Wind Wind is a powerful agent of erosion. Aeolian (wind-driven) processes constantly transport dust, sand, and ash from one place to another. Wind can sometimes blow sand into towering dunes.
Where in North America would you find glaciers?
Most U.S. glaciers are in Alaska; others can be found in Washington, Oregon, California, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and Nevada (Wheeler Peak Glacier in Great Basin National Park).
What agent of erosion is slowly moving the tree down the hillside?
Creep
What is the relationship between mass movement and gravity?
Mass movements (also called mass-wasting) is the down-slope movement of Regolith (loose uncemented mixture of soil and rock particles that covers the Earth’s surface) by the force of gravity without the aid of a transporting medium such as water, ice, or wind.
What are the different causes of mass movement?
Vibrations from machinery, traffic, weight loading from accumulation of snow; stockpiling of rock or ore; from waste piles and from buildings and other structures. Another natural cause of mass wasting is excess water on a slope due to melting snow or heavy rains.
What are the effects of mass movement?
Mass movements affect the following elements of the environment: (1) the topography of the earth’s surface, particularly the morphologies of mountain and valley systems, both on the continents and on the ocean floors; (2) the character/quality of rivers and streams and groundwater flow; (3) the forests that cover much …