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Causes of Erosion
100
the process by which water, ice, wind, or gravity moves weathered rock or soil
What is erosion?
100
the grinding away of rock by other rock particles
What is abrasion?
100
a part of the shore that sticks out into the ocean
What is a headland?
100
wave-washed sediments along a coast
What is a beach?
100
The weakest cause of erosion on Earth's surface
What is wind?
200
process in which sediment is laid down in new locations
What is deposition?
200
a type of movement of water in which the water moves every which way
What is turbulence?
200
wind erosion that removes surface materials
What is deflation?
200
small, solid pieces of material that come from rocks or organisms
What is sediment?
200
Causes erosion in very cold areas.
What are glaciers?
300
water that flows over the ground surface rather than soaking into the ground
What is runoff?
300
a large mass of moving ice and snow on land
What is a glacier?
300
the force that opposes the motion of one surface as it moves across another surface
What is friction?
300
A wind-formed deposit made of fine particles of clay and silt.
What is loess?
300
The major cause of erosion on Earth's surface
What is moving water?
400
any of the process by which gravity moves sediment downhill
What is mass movement?
400
a force that moves rocks and other materials downhill
What is gravity?
400
the process by which a glacier picks up rocks as it flows over the land
What is plucking?
400
the movement of water and sediments down a beach caused by waves coming in to shore at an angle
What is longshore drift?
400
This causes mass movement
What is gravity?
500
water that fills the cracks and spaces in underground soil and rock layers
What is groundwater?
500
the ability to do work or cause change
What is energy?
500
the amount of sediment a river carries
What is load?
500
The sediments deposited directly by a glacier.
What is till?
500
This causes erosion along coastlines
What are waves?