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A natural ridge formed along the edge of a river's channel
What is a levee?
The piles of debris left behind when a glacier melts
What are cirques?
A large stream that carries water from the mountain to the sea
What is a river?
The type of weathering which involves the breaking or peeling away of rock into layers
What is exfoliation?
The name for the time when one-third of the earth's land area was covered in glaciers
What is the Ice Age?
The natural processes that break down rocks
What is weathering?
A narrow, sandy island formed by a large bar off the coast of the mainland
What is a barrier island?
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The main agent of chemical weathering
What is water?
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The process that occurs when oxygen from the atmosphere reacts with minerals to form new compounds
What is oxidation?
Large, deep grooves and scratches in rock, produced by glaciers
What is striae?
The name of the triangular sediment deposit formed on a plain by a temporary mountain stream
What is an alluvial fan?
The side of a dune which has a gentle slope and progresses up to the crest
What is the windward side?
Large, icicle-like masses of calcium carbonate found in caves
What is dripstone?
The stripping away of a thin area of topsoil from the surface of the land
What is sheet erosion?
The type of landslide which involves fine soil and small pebbles fall in large masses down a slope
What is a earth slide?
The source of a river
What are headwaters?
A spire-like mass of dripstone on the floor of a cave
What is a stalagmite?
A huge, bowl-shaped depression dug out by a valley glacier
What is a cirque?
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A sheet of glacial ice that covers an immense area of flat land
What is a continental glacier?
The fan-shaped deposit left by a large river when it reaches the ocean
What is a delta?
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After rock has been broken into fragments and the wind and running water carries them away is called
What is erosion?
After physical forces carry away rock fragments and they are carried away to a new location is a process called
What is deposition?
Suspension, saltation, and creep are what kind of process
What is eolian?
The process of modifying a smooth slope into a series of level, stair-like steps
What is terracing?
The drainage divide in the Rocky Mountains west of the Mississippi drainage basin
What is the Great Divide?
The natural acid found in rainwater and groundwater, which promotes chemical weathering of rocks
What is carbonic acid?