Vocabulary
Shoreline
Wind
Ice
Gravity
100
A feature that forms when waves continue to erode a sea cave.
What is a sea arch?
100
A common offshore deposit.
What is a sandbar?
100
The removal of fine sediment by wind
What is deflation?
100
Erodes broad, U-shaped valleys in mountain river valleys.
What is an alpine glacier?
100
The movement of any material down a slope.
What is a mass movement?
200
An exposed sandbar that is connected to the shoreline
What is a barrier spit?
200
A place where land and a body of water meet.
What is a shoreline?
200
A depression scooped out by the wind in the landscape of a desert.
What is a deflation hollow?
200
A small glacial valley that joins a deeper, main valley.
What is a hanging valley?
200
Burrowing animals and plant roots contribute to this.
What is a creep?
300
The skipping and bouncing movement of sand-sized particles in the direction the wind is blowing.
What is saltation?
300
Waves that travel in groups
What is a wave train?
300
Fine-grained sediment deposited by wind.
What is loess?
300
A jagged ridge that forms a mountain.
What is a cirque?
300
A sudden, rapid movement of rock and soil downslope.
What is a landslide?
400
Mudflows of volcanic origin.
What is a lahar?
400
Water that moves in a zigzag pattern along the beach.
What is a longshore current?
400
A rocky surface consisting of pebbles and small broken rocks left behind after the finer material has been blown away.
What is desert pavement?
400
A fast movement of a mass of mud or volcanic ash.
What is a mudflow?
500
Unsorted rock material that is deposited directly by a melting glacier.
What is a till?
500
A hole cut into a rock at the base of a sea cliff.
What is a sea cave?
500
The skipping and bouncing of small particles in the direction that the wind is blowing.
What is saltation?
500
A glacial deposit sorted into layers according to the size of the rock.
What is a stratified drift?
500
The blowing of millions of sharp sand grains that erode, smooth, and polish rocks.
What is abrasion?
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