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Q: Is a landslide a type of erosion?
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Which is a very slow type of erosion that moves rocks and soil is it a glacier a creep a landslide or weathering?

glacier


Is landslide an effect of soil erosion?

Yes it is. Erosion causes landslides


A landslide is an example of?

Landslides are caused by the force of gravity pulling on the rocks.


What characteristic landscape features tell you that erosion due to a landslide took place?

The characteristic landscape feature that will show if erosion is due to a landslide is a concave scar on the hillside. A jagged gash in the mountain is not a way to tell if a landslide took place.


Is a landslide deposition or erosion?

When soil moves from one location to another location, it is being eroded in the location that it is leaving, and it is being deposited in the location where it is arriving. Hence, a landslide is both deposition and erosion.


What happens to the earth during a landslide?

Basically it leads to soil erosion


What is it called when soil and rock are transported by the movement in erosion?

landslide/mudslide


What are the examples of soil erosion?

the examplesof soil erosins are mining and landslide


Is a landslide formed by erosion deposition or weathering?

Usually by erosion, although weathered rocks can split off to trigger a slide. A landslide is the downhill motion of loose rock and soil, sometimes entire layers of a mountainside.


What is an example of a change of erosion in the earth's surface that happens quickly?

Very fast erosion can be found at any landslide or avalanche...


What is a sentence for natural forces?

The natural forces of erosion and gravity caused the landslide.


How does landslide change the land?

It is part of the erosion of hills in particular circumstances.