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Types of landslides are determined by: - correct answer Mechanism of movement (fall, slide, flow) Type of material (rock? Gravel? sand?) Amount of water in material The rate of movement What is a snow avalanche? - correct answer ...

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Types of landslides are determined by: - correct answer Mechanism of
movement (fall, slide, flow)

Type of material (rock? Gravel? sand?)

Amount of water in material

The rate of movement



What is a snow avalanche? - correct answer Masses of snow, generally more
than a few cubic meter's in volume, that separate from the intact snowpack and slide or flow downslope



What is a land slide? - correct answer the sliding down of a mass of earth or
rock from a mountain or cliff.



What is mass wasting? - correct answer the movement of rock and soil down
slope under the influence of gravity



If you can see it move with your eyes, it is considered - correct answer rapid



If you cannot see it move it is considered - correct answer slow (movement of
up to millimeters a year).



Landslides can even be found in space. An example can be - correct answer
Mars



Where does the majority of landslide activity occur in Canada? - correct answer
Western part of Canada (Cordillera)



How many estimated snow avalanches occur in the western cordillera per year? - correct answer
1.5 million

, How many people die every year from snow avalanches? - correct answer A
dozen people die



Landslides can have three different movements: - correct answer - Fall

- Slide

- Flow



What is a fall landslide? - correct answer Involves steep or vertical drops



What is a slide landslide? - correct answer Involves inclined movement with a
sliding motion



What is a flow landslide? - correct answer Inclined motion with flowing motion



What is rock fall? (Mass movement) - correct answer The downslope
movement of rock or blocks of sediment from the face of a cliff



What is the difference between a slide and a flow? - correct answer Slide is
one big block where a flow is individual particles moving independently



What is talus? - correct answer A natural slope made of the abundance of
loose rocks that have fallen from an above cliff or surface



What is a rock slide? - correct answer Downslope movement of a block of rock
or sediment along a discrete failure plane



Describe the Frank Slide event (location, year, and deaths) - correct answer
Occurred in 1903 killing 74 people in Frank town Alberta.



What is a failure plane? - correct answer The surface along where sliding rock
occurs

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