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Shoreline
Wind
Ice
Gravity
Formations
100
the place where land and a body of water meet
What is a shoreline?
100
The grinding and wearing down of rock surfaces by other rock or sand particles
What is abrasion?
100
The glacier that forms in mountainous regions
What is an alpine glacier?
100
The movement of any material downslope
What is mass movement?
100
Form when valley glaciers and lateral glaciers meet
What are medial moraines?
200
groups that waves travel in
What are wave trains?
200
The direction in which dunes move
What is the direction of strong winds?
200
The type of landscape left by a continental glacier
What is smooth and flat?
200
The sudden and rapid movement of a large amount of material downslope
What is a landslide?
200
Jagged ridges that form between two or more cirques cutting into the same mountain
What is an aretes?
300
the water current that moves the sand in a zigzag pattern along the beach
What is a longshore current?
300
Mounds of wind-deposited sand
What is a dune?
300
The glacial deposit that is sorted into layers based on the size of the rock material
What is stratified drift?
300
Mudflows of volcanic origin
What is a Lahar?
300
Form when wave action continues to erode a sea cave
What is a sea arch?
400
An exposed sandbar that is still connected to the shoreline
What is a barrier spit?
400
The skipping and bouncing movement of sand-sized particles in the direction the wind is blowing
What is saltation?
400
The broad area where streams carry sorted material and deposit in in front of the glacier
What is an outwash plain?
400
The extremely slow mass movement
What is a creep?
400
Formed when ice melts and sediment builds up around the block of ice causing a depression
What is a kettle?
500
The time interval between breaking waves
What is a wave period?
500
Thick deposits of wind-blown fine-grained sediment
What is a Loess?
500
The general term to describe all material carried and deposited by glaciers
What is glacial drift?
500
The steepest angle at which loose material will not slide downslope
What is angle of repose?
500
Long, narrow island usually made of sand that forms offshore parallel to the shoreline
What is a barrier island?