Aeolian Processes and Arid Landforms Module 2: Aeolian Landforms Dynamic Study Module
What is a depression that results from deflation?
A blowout
What gets larger as an inselberg shrinks?
A pediment
What is the landform at E?
A pediment
What is the zone of the foot of any mountains?
A piedmont
What has occurred to produce the illustrated landscape? (light brown and dark brown land meet, rough where they touch)
A plateau is exposed to headward erosion.
What is pictured? (flat landscape, sand and white)
A playa
What is the landform in the center of the photo?
An alluvial fan
What term describes most stream channels in an arid environment?
Arroyo
What is formed by the coalescing of alluvial fans?
Bajada
What is the dune type?(one arrow, U shape dunes)
Barchan
Which landform would have a cap rock?
Butte
What are the three features shown in this image?
Buttes
What is the dune type? (mounds with little green)
Dome
Where would a transverse dune be most likely to form?
In an erg
What is the landform at F?
Inselberg
What is the dune type? (two arrows pointing right at each other, at a ridge like dune)
Longitudinal
What two dune types are common with two prevailing wind directions?
Longitudinal and reversing
What is the large feature in the distance in this photo?
Mesa
What is the dune type? (one arrow, one main u shape dune, little green)
Parabolic
What is the dune type? (two arrows, pointing opposite, u-shapedish dunes)
Reversing
How does a salina differ from a playa?
Salinas have a higher salt content.
What is the dune type? (three arrows, two dunes almost spirled with each other)
Star
What is the pictured landform? (large rock with some green vegetation)
Yardang
Why did this landform develop? (description reads: fan along Black Mountains, Death Valley CA)
The stream gradient decreased when exiting the mountain canyon and caused deposition.
What is the dune type? (one arrow, wave like dunes)
Transverse
