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100
Erosion
The process the by which soil and sediments are transported from location to another.
100
Weathering
What is process by which rocks are broken down?
100
Deposition
What is the proces sby which material is laid down or dropped?
100
Shoreline
What is the place where land and body of water meet?
100
abrasion
What is the grinding and wearing away of rock surfaces through the mechanical action of other rock or sand particle.
200
Wave Erosion
What produces a variety of features along a shoreline.
200
Beach
What is an area of shoreline made up of materials deposited by waves.
200
defaltion
What is a form of wind erosion in which in which fine dry soil particles are blown away.
200
Loess
What are very fine sediments deposited by the wind.
200
dune
What is a mound of wind deposited sand that keeps its shape even though it moves.
300
glacier
What is a large mass of moving ice
300
till
What is unsorted rock material that is deposited directly by a melting glacier?
300
stratified drift
What is a glacial deposit that has been sorted and layered by the action of streams or meltwater.
300
permeability
What is the ability of a rock, sediment or any object to let fluids pass through its open spaces and spores?
300
mass movement
What is a movement of a section of land down a slope.
400
landslide
What is the sudden movement of rock and soil down a slope.
400
Saltation
What is the movement of sand or sediments by short jumps and bounces that is caused by wind or water.
400
rock fall
What is a group of loose rocks that fall down a steep slope
400
mudflow
What is the flow of a mass of mud or rock and soil mixed witha large amount of water.
400
creep
What is the slow downhill movement of weathered rock material
500
Water cycle
What is the continous movement of Earth's water from the ocean to the atmosphere to the land and back into the ocean?
500
Sea stacks, sea arches, sea caves, headlands, wave-cut terraces.
List the coastal landforms created by wave erosion.
500
glacial drift
What is the rock materrial carried and deposited by glaciers.
500
U-Shaped Valleys
This is formed when a glacier erodes a river valley from its original V-shape to a U-shape.
500
Horns
What are sharp, pyramid-shaped peaks that form when three or more cirque glaciers erode a mountain.
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