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Earth's Surface
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100
The zig-zag movement of sand along a beach.
What is longshore drift?
100
The process by which erosion lays down sediment in a new location.
What is deposition?
100
Force that pulls rock and soil down slopes.
What is gravity?
100
A ridge formed by the till left by a glacier where it begins to receed
What is a moraine?
100
A large mass of ice and snow moving on land under its own weight
What is a glacier?
200
A ridge from which water drains to one side or the other.
What is a divide?
200
The process by which natural forces move weathered rock from place to place.
What is erosion?
200
Material moved by erosion.
What is sediment?
200
An area of land on either side of a stream that is underwater when the stream floods.
What is a floodplain?
200
A bowl-shaped depression that was formed by a block of ice from a glacier and then became filled with water.
What are kettle lakes?
300
A basin that forms when the roof of a cave becomes so thin that it sinks in?
What is a sinkhole?
300
Three major ways that erosion occurs.
What is water, wind, and ice?
300
Four types of mass movement.
What are slump, creep, rockfall/rockslide and mudslide?
300
The two types of glaciers
What are alpine and continental glaciers?
300
a fan-shaped deposit of sediment at the base of a mountain.
What is an alluvial fan?
400
A mound of sand built up by wind.
What is a dune?
400
The movement of water along a shore as waves strike the shore at an angle.
What is a longshore current?
400
Results in gravestones and fenceposts tilting at odd angles.
What is creep?
400
A long, narrow island that develops parallel to a coast.
What is a barrier island?
400
An area of land formed by the build up of sediment at the end, or mouth, of a river.
What is a delta?
500
Deposits of fine wind-blown sediment
What is loess?
500
A ridge o sand built up by the action of waves and currents.
What is a sandbar?
500
A kind of mass movement that occurs when rock and soil slide rapidly down a steep slope.
What is a rockslide?
500
The sediment left directly on the ground surface by a retreating glacier.
What is till?
500
The area of land in which water drains into a stream system.
What is a drainage basin?