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Mass Movement
Water Erosion
Glacial Erosion
Wave & Wind Erosion
Mystery
100
The force the pulls objects down
What is gravity?
100
A bend in a river shaped like a loop
What is a meander?
100
Times when continental glaciers cover large parts of Earth's surface
What are Ice Ages?
100
waves erode the land by abrasion and _____
What is impact?
100
These five items make up till.
What are clay, silt, sand, gravel, and boulders?
200
The material moved by erosion
What is sediment?
200
Water that moves over the land and carries particles with it
What is runoff?
200
A glacier deposits sediment when it ______.
What is melts?
200
Waves change direction as they approach shore because they begin to _______.
What is drag?
200
These are the three major processes that shapes Earth's surface.
What are weathering, erosion, and deposition?
300
This type of mass movement happens very slowly.
What is creep?
300
A cone shaped deposit that rises from the floor of a cave
What is stalagmite?
300
A glacier picks up rocks through this process
What is plucking?
300
This landform is a long, narrow island parallel to the coast
What is a barrier beach?
300
Deltas and alluvial fans form with river ________ occurs.
What is deposition?
400
in this type of mass movement, soils can behave like a liquid and start flowing.
What is mudslide?
400
A channel along which water is continually flowing down a slope
What is a stream?
400
Glacial deposition creates these 3 landforms
What is moraine, drumlin, and kettle lake?
400
This is the material that drifts in longshore drift
What is beach sediment?
400
Ground water can cause erosion through this type of weathering
What is chemical weathering?
500
In this type of mass movement, rock and soil slide quickly down a steep slope
What is landslide?
500
The feature is very common in areas of karst topography
What is a sinkhole?
500
_____ by wind-carried sand causes little erosion to occur. Instead, it polishes rock.
What is abrasion?