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Sediment deposit extending from the mouth of a river into the sea
What is a delta?
Ridge formed when a river drops sediments along the edge of its channel
What is a levee?
Gently sloping coasts covered by sand or pebbles
What is a beach?
Limestone formations that become filled with various passageways and large caves
What are caverns?
A river or ice that flows slowly down from a mountainous region into a valley is this type of glacier
What is valley (or alpine)?
Stream that feeds into a river
What is a tributary?
Triangular deposit formed by short-lived desert streams
What is an alluvial fan?
Waves and currents that build offshore ridges of sand or gravel
What are bars?
The build up of dripstone on the ceiling which forms a large, icicle-mass of calcium carbonate
What are stalactite?
Suspension, saltation, and creep, in which wind transports sediments are these types of processes
What are eolian processes?
This type of weathering changes the composition of the materials
What is chemical weathering?
Waves that erode deep indentations into softer rock, these indentations are often exposed at low tide
What are sea caves?
When crashing waves gradually erode the rock at the base of the promontory, where portions of the coast fall into the sea, leaving behind a vertical face of rock
What is a sea cliff?
Regions of the earth's surface where limestone is exposed and abundant
What are karst regions?
Large hole in the ground left from the melting of a chunk of glacial ice
What is a kettle?
The level or nearly level land that borders a river and is covered by river water in flood time
What is a floodplain?
This type of physical weathering occurs when water soaks into a crack and freezes
What is ice wedging?
High ridges of rock and land that project out into the sea along deep-water shorelines
What are promontories?
The roof of a cavern collapsing, causing the ground above it to collapse. At the surface it creates a large funnel-shaped depression in the ground called this.
What are sinkholes?
A low hill formed when a glacier overruns a moraine is called this
What is drumlin?
Narrow, shallow cut in the soil
What is a rill?
U-shaped body of water near a river formed by movements of the river's channel
What is an oxbow lake?
Large bars that form narrow, sandy islands that lie off the coast of the mainland
What are barrier islands?
Water dripping from the ceiling that produce a cone-shaped mass on the floor
What are stalagmites?
This process occurs when oxygen from the atmosphere reacts with minerals like calcium, magnesium, and iron to form new compounds
What is oxidation?