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Water/Rivers
Mass Movement
Glaciers
Erosion, etc..
100
When agents of erosion drop sediments they are carrying as they lose energy.
What is deposition?
100
A stream or river that flows into another stream
What is a tributary?
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
The wearing away of rock by a grinding action.
What is abrasion?
200
A tiny groove in soil made by flowing water
What is a rill?
200
A loop like bend in the course of a river.
What is a meander?
200
Small solid pieces of material moved by erosion.
What is sediment?
200
The process by which a glacier picks up rocks.
What is plucking?
200
The process of sediment moving down a beach with the current.
What is longshore drift?
300
A meander cut off from a river
What is an Oxbow Lake?
300
A wide sloping deposit of sediment formed where a stream slows down as it leaves a mountain range,
What is an alluvial fan?
300
Three types of mass movement.
What are slump, creep, and landslide?
300
The two types of glaciers
What are valley and continental glaciers?
300
A calcite deposit that hangs from the roof of a cave.
What is a stalactite?
400
Sediment landform formed when a river flows into an ocean or lake.
What is a delta?
400
The amount of sediment in a river.
What is a load?
400
Results in gravestones and fenceposts tilting at odd angles.
What is creep?
400
The laying down of sediment as a glacier retreats.
What is glacial deposition?
400
A region in which a long layer of limestone close to the surface creates deep valleys, caverns, or sinkholes.
What is Karst topography?
500
One or more of several processes that moves sediment downhill.
What is mass movement?
500
A channel through which water is continually flowing downhill.
What is a stream?
500
A kind of mass movement that occurs when rock and soil slide rapidly down a steep slope.
What is a rockslide?
500
The type of glacial erosion that causes deep scratches in bedrock.
What is abrasion?
500
The process by which wind remove surface materials.
What is deflation?