Rivers & Strams
A bend in a river or stream
What is a meander?
Glacier that covers broad, continent sized areas.
What is a continental glacier
Place where land and water meet
What is a shoreline
What is a coastline or dessert?
The breakdown of rock.
What is weathering?
Two factors that influence erosion in a river.
What is gradient, discharge, velocity, load?
Unsorted glacial till
What is a moraine?
Two features formed by wave erosion.
What is a sea cliff, sea arch, sea stack, sea cave?
Top layers of small, fine sediment or soil is blown away. Leaves larger rock pieces behind
What is deflation?
The transport or movement of weathered materials.
What is erosion?
Where the most erosion in a river takes place.
What is the outside of a meander?
Lakes formed after a glacier melts.
What is a kettle lake?
The movement of sand depending on the angel at which the waves his the shore.
What is longshore currents
On a dune, where wind blows sediment up the steep side.
What is wind-ward slop?
Laying down of eroded sediment
What is deposition?
Where the most deposition in a river takes place.
What is the inside of a meander?
A __________ steeper slope faces the direction from which the glacier came.
What is a drumlin?
3 Depositional feature formed by waves.
What is a barrier spit, barrier island, beach, sandbar?
Two types of wind deposition?
What is loess and dune?
Three primary agents responsible for weathering, erosion, and deposition.
What are glaciers, rivers/streams, waves, wind, gravity?
Where a river deposits its load in a fan-shaped pattern where it meets an ocean
What is a delta?
Mound of layered sediment deposited at the retreating glacier face and is conical in shape.
What is a Kame?
What is quartz
Moves in the direction of the wind.
What is a dune?
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