Erosion
Deposition
Rivers
Glaciers
Vocab/Key Words
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?
100
These glaciers are huge, may spread over entire continents and round off mountaintops.
What are continental glaciers?
100
The place where land and a body of water meet.
What is a shoreline?
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?
200
Long, smooth, canoe-shaped hills of till.
What are drumlins?
200
The water located within the rocks below Earth's surface.
What is groundwater?
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?
300
These are large boulders transported by glaciers.
What are glacial erratics?
300
The extremely slow movement of material downslope.
What is creep?
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?
400
Bowl shaped formations where valley glaciers begin to form.
What are cirques?
400
Thick deposits of windblown , fine-grained sediment.
What is loess?
500
Formed when chunks of ice that were deposited by a glacier eventually melts.
What is a kettle lake?
500
The cut-off meander in a stream forms a crescent-shaped lake.
What is an oxbow lake?
500
Small glacial valleys that join the deeper, main valley and sometimes form waterfalls after the ice is gone.
What are hanging valleys?
500
A current of water that travels almost parallel to the shoreline very near shore.
What is a longshore current?
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