Exam 15: Arid Region Landforms and Eolian Processes

Ayers Rock is an excellent example of a(n) ____.

Ventifacts are ____.

Desert pavement is ____.

Playa sediments are typically fine-grained clasts or salts.

____________________ landforms and processes are those associated with the work of the wind.

Arroyos are a type of:

Alluvial fans are shaped like ____.

Wind erodes by the processes of ____ and abrasion.

Regions of rugged, barren topography with prominent ridges and ravines resulting from gully erosion of soft material are known as ____.

In the Gobi Desert of China, the loess deposits are ____ thick.

The world's desert regions ____.

Dunes along the coast ____.

Knobs of bedrock that rise up from smooth desert pediments are ____.

Compared to sandstorms, dust storms ____.

An alluvial fan forms where a stream emerging from a mountain canyon undergoes an ____.

Caprocks are ____.

Desert regions characteristically ____.

A perennial river that begins in a humid region but flows across an arid region is a(n) ____________________ river.

Earth's most fertile agricultural soils often come from ____ deposits.

A usually dry, very flat clay surface at the bottom of a desert basin is a kind of ____________________.