Erosion
Deposition
Rivers
100
The number one agent of erosion.
What is running water?
100
A large deposit of sand by the wind.
What is a sand dune?
100
Fan-shaped deposits at the mouth of a river.
What is a delta?
200
This type of erosion is common in a hot, dry climate.
What is wind erosion?
200
Groundwater can dissolve and carry away rock, which results in this land formation.
What is a cave?
200
When a stream floods many layers of deposited sediment can form a flat area.
What is a floodplain?
300
The primary force behind all mass movements.
What is gravity?
300
An area of shoreline that is made up of material deposited by waves and currents.
What is a beach?
300
Curves and bends that form a twisting, looping pattern in a stream channel.
What is a meander?
400
This agent of erosion produces U-shaped valleys.
What is valley glaciers?
400
When waves erode material from the shoreline, currents can transport and deposit this material offshore to create a landform in open water.
What is a sandbar or barrier island?
400
When a stream flows onto a flat land surface from the mountains it creates a fan-shaped deposit that forms on dry land.
What is an alluvial fan?
500
Formed when chunks of ice that were deposited by a glacier eventually melts.
What is a kettle lake?
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