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A feature that consists of a relatively large stream and any smaller streams that flow into it
What is a drainage system?
A large, funnel-shaped depression caused by cavern collapse
What is a sinkhole?
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The material carried by a stream
What is the load?
A type of narrow, curved rock formation forms when a sea cave is continually eroded
What is a sea arch?
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A glacier-carved valley that has filled with seawater
What is a fjord?
A sudden slide of huge masses of rock or soil down a slope
What is a landslide?
The eroding action of windblown sand
What is abrasion?
A low hill formed when a glacier overruns a moraine
What is a drumlin?
The winding, looping curves of rivers
What are meanders?
Regions of the earth's surface where limestone is exposed and abundant
What is karst regions?
Ice sheets smaller than continental glaciers
What are ice caps?
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What is the excess water that travels downhill after a heavy rain called
What is runoff?
The sharp, steeple-shaped point of a mountain with three or more cirques
What is a horn?
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Particles too heavy to be lifted by the wind are rolled in short bursts through a process called
What is creep?
A feature formed when a sharp curve in a river is cut off from the rest of the river
What is an oxbow lake?
The type of weathering that does not change the chemical composition of the minerals that compose a rock
What is physical weathering?
The type of weathering that occurs when rainwater soaks into cracks in a rock and freezes, splitting the rock
What is ice wedging?
A sheet of glacial ice that covers an immense area of flat land
What is a continental glacier?
One of the numerous streams that feed into a river at various points
What is a tributary?
A long pile of rocks deposited parallel to the shore to prevent erosion
What is a breakwater?
Limestone formations that have become filled with various passageways and large caves
What are caverns?
The type of dune which is arch shaped with the open end of the arch pointing to the windward side
What is a parabolic dune?
The name for a vertical face of rock that forms when the sea removes rock from the base of a high ridge
What is a sea cliff?
A huge hole left in the ground when an ice chunk left by a retreating glacier melts
What is a kettle?
The type of weathering that occurs when a plant's roots slowly thicken in a rock, causing the rock to crack
What is physical weathering?
The general term for the downslope movements of rock, soil, volcanic ash, snow or ice
What is mass wasting?