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Questions

1. Define mass wasting.

2. What is considered to be the most common type of landform?

3. What are the two main driving factors behind mass wasting?

4. One of the most important factors in mass wasting is?

5. In many areas, the primary force responsible for the steepening of slopes is?

6. If water enters the pores between particles in the soil at too great a level, then the water will?

7. What are three sources that can produce an excessive amount of water in the soil?

8. What begins as one form of mass wasting can evolve into another. For this reason, it is sometimes difficult to classify them, and the types of mass wasting can vary according to several factors. What are three of these factors?

9. What type of mass wasting moves as slow as one centimeter per year and yet operates every day?

10. What type of mass wasting is especially active when the freeze and thaw takes place, and does more economic damage than all the other forms of mass wasting combined?

11. What is the fastest form of mass wasting after creep?

12. What starts out as a block of slumping earth, often spreads out downslope as a

13. Landslides move faster than what other two types of mass wasting?

14. Exactly what are mud flows and debris flows are a product of?

15. Mud and debris flows are forms of mass wasting that can take a house from its foundation, and this is due primarily to two factors. What are the two factors?

16. What are the specific listed size range of materials in a mud flow or debris flow?

17. In the Wrightwood California area, flows are the direct result of what major fault system?

18. Besides mudslides, what two types of mass wasting events take place in mountainous areas?

19. Some rockslides move or travel only a few meters, while rockslides that occur in high relief areas can travel distances of how many meters before reaching the valley floor?

20. It is normally easy to mitigate what two types of mass wasting by grading the slope? Can the same be said for landslides?

21. What type of movement is often too slow to perceive, but is considered to be a continuous downslope movement?

22. What two types of movement often move large amounts of soft or easily weathered bedrock in a slow intermittent fashion, over a long period of time?

23. Damage in what type of scenic areas is due to slump and earthflows that is usually very serious?

24. What two events are common at the very rapid end of mass wasting events?

25. Will mass wasting events become more common in areas that have suffered massive burn events in and around the forested areas? What, if anything can be done to help mitigate the issue?