A Continual Process of Changes
The removal of weathered material from one location to another.
What is Erosion?
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Teepees, Hoodoos, and Glaciers.
What are landforms created by Erosion?
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A broad, c-shaped curve in a stream.
What is a meander?
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The downhill movement of a large mass of rocks or soil because of the pull of gravity.
What is mass wasting?
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A large mass of ice that formed on land and moves slowly.
What is a glacier?
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Weathering agents are ___, ___, and ___.
What is water, wind, and ice?
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Eroded land forms and deposited land forms are different because Erosion produces _______ and Deposition produces ____________.
What is Erosion produces land forms that are often tall and deposition produces land forms on flat low land.
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Another way to erode rock.
What is water that flows underground?
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Three examples of mass wasting.
What are rockfall, slump, and creep?
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A mixture of various sizes of sediment deposited by a glacier.
What is a till?
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A rushing stream can erode a large quantity of material quickly.
What is the rate of Erosion?
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5 examples of land forms.
What are mountains, valleys, plains, sea cliffs, and beaches.
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Erosion produces by a stream depends on the streams ________.
What is energy?
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Material reaches a stable location, such as the base of a mountain, the material is _____.
What is deposited?
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The process of which rocks and grit frozen within ice creates grooves and scratches on underlying rocks.
What is glacier Erosion?
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Environments where sediment is transported and deposited quickly are _______.
What is high-energy environments?
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An alluvial fan.
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Weathering and Erosion produce ____.
What is caves?
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Cam affect both the severity of mass wasting and the tendency for it to occur.
What is human activities?
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Human activities contribute to _______.
What is global warming?
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Rushing rivers, ocean shores with large waves, and deserts with strong winds.
What is depositional environment?
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Glacial erosion and coastal erosion form ______ landforms.
What is unique?
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A wide, flat area next to a river.
What is a floodplain?
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The mass is not moved by, in, on, or under a transporting agent such as ___, ____, and ___.
What are water, ice, or air?
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Layered sediment deposited by streams of water that flow from a melting glacier.
What is outwash?
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