Mass Movement
When rock and soil suddenly slip downhill in one large mass
What is slump?
Where a river flows into an ocean
What is a delta?
Clay, silt, sand, gravel, and boulders are contents of
What is till?
This is the remains of a sea arch
What is a sea stack?
Loess formed soil is said to be.
What is fertile?
When a gravestone on a hillside falls over after many years
What is a creep?
A channel where flowing water flows into a larger river
What is a tributary?
The process glaciers use to pick up rocks
What is plucking?
The process of waves carrying away sediment wearing away rocks along the coast
What is abrasion?
This occurs when wind slows down
What is deposition?
The process of mass movement cannot take place without this phenomenon
What is gravity?
River bends that are shaped like loops
What are meanders?
Sediment is deposited when a glacier does this
What is melts?
The part of the beach that projects into the water like a finger
What is a spit?
The combination of clay and silt
What is Loess?
Slump, creep, landslide, and mudslide are all examples of this
What is mass movement?
The flat wide area next to a river
What is a flood plain?
When a chunk of ice is left in a glacial till, this depression forms
What is a kettle?
When beach sediment gets moved down the beach with the current
What is longshore drift?
Area of rock fragments exposed by wind
What is desert pavement?
Earth's surface is shaped by these three processes
What are weathering, erosion, and deposition?
Rainy region where caverns, sinkholes, and deep valleys are common
What is Karst topography?
When continental glaciers cover large parts of the Earth's surface it is known as this
What are ice ages?
The part of the shore that resists erosion by the waves
What is a headland?
Process of wind removing surface materials
What is deflation?