Learning Objectives

The goals and objectives of this chapter are to:

• Describe the basic processes, functions, and influences of weathering and erosion.
• Describe the various types of mass wasting processes.
• Compare the difference between fast and slow subsidence and how it may be limited.
• Describe how streams have the ability to erode and deposit sediment.
• Explain how groundwater can erodes limestone to form caves.
• Describe how wave actions erode coastlines and create coastal landforms.
• Explain how wind erodes and transports sediment in arid regions of the world.
• Describe how glaciers erode and carve out the landscape.