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    The document summarizes the main geological agents that shape the Earth's relief, including the atmosphere, living beings, surface water flows, groundwater, glaciers, rivers, ocean water movement, and wind. It describes the geological processes of weathering, erosion, transportation, and deposition caused by each agent, and the resulting landforms like karst landscapes, cirques, moraines, meanders, and desert features. Rock type also influences relief, with granite creating rounded shapes and limestone forming caves and sinkholes.

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    UNIT 2.

    THE SHAPING OF THE EARTH’S RELIEF

    1. What are the external geological agents?


    2. What are the external geological processes?
    3. What are called the shapes created by external agents?
    4. A rock is up a mountain. The temperature varies from 5ºC in daytime to -10 ºC at night. It rains quite a lot. Which is the main type of weathering it suffers?
    Explain why you think so

    GEOLOGICAL AGENT GEOLOGICAL PROCESSES LANDFORMS RELIEF

    Atmosphere Weathering: - Rocks crack by …


    …………………………………………… - …………………….. and …………………….
    - mechanical weathering - Rocks change their chemical composition
    Action of living beings - chemical weathering - Breaking down of rocks by plant root pressure
    - Biological weathering

    Surface run-off or flood waters flow without a……….. Erosion - On weak materials
    ……………………………… Badlands with………………..and ravines
    Subdesert zones Transportation
    Dry or very dry climate -On mixed materials (hard and weak)
    Sporadic but ………………. precipitation Deposition ……………………..
    No……………………………

    Torrents are……………….bodies of water with a Erosion - Alluvial cone


    fixed…………………… Transportation
    Deposition

    Groundwater (+ surface water) Chemical weathering on limestone (carbonation) - Karst landscape


    Erosion Surface landforms:…………………………..
    Transportation ……………………….………………………..
    Deposition
    Underground landforms:……………………
    ……………………….………………………..
    Deposition landforms Dissolution landforms

    ……………………. …………………….
    ……………………. ……………………

    Glacier Erosion - Cirques


    - Valley glaciers: Cirque,…………, Transportation ……………………………… -………..-shaped valleys
    moraines horns or …………………….
    - Ice sheets (Greenland, Antarctica) Deposition tarns or ……………………..
    -Arêtes
    -Moraines: central, lateral, terminal, ground
    River Erosion, transportation and deposition along the
    whole river course, but… Upper course
    ……-shaped valleys, rapids and ……………

    Middle course
    Meanders, ……-shaped valleys
    Lower course and river mouth
    Meanders, delta and ……
    Movement of the ocean water Erosion carried out by (waves+ ……) Erosion forms:
    …………………………….…………………………….
    Transportation (selective) carried out by …………………………….…………………………….
    ……………………………. Deposition forms:

    Deposition …………………………….…………………………….
    …………………………….…………………………….
    Wind Erosion. Deflation: Wind picks up small sized materials
    Very dry climates and leaves the large ones Reg or………………………………………………….
    No vegetation Mushroom rocks
    Abundance of……………, loose materials Transportation (selective) Sand and dust are Honeycombs or…………………………..................
    transported by suspensión and can re-erode (Abrasion)
    Erg or…………………………………………………..
    Deposition
    Deposits of small sized materials as dust and clay
    on the edge of desert…………………………………

    THE INFLUENCE OF ROCKS ON RELIEF:

    - Granite shaping: The effect of chemical weathering creates a characteristic relief of…………………………………….. There are abundant rounded
    shapes and often various blocks of granite on top of each other (…………………) or precariously …………………………………

    - Structural shaping: Th estructure or arragenment of the strata determines the relief. Mesas,………………..and ………………….. are formed as a
    result of the alternation of resistant and soft rocks.

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