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Term | Definition |
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erosion | the movement of weathered materials by water, wind and ice. |
deposition | the process in which materials eroded by water,wind, or ice are dropped in a new place |
glacier | A large body of moving ice that stays frozen all year. |
moraine | a ridge of rocks left by a glacier |
fault-block mountain | mountains that formed when blocks of rock slid upward or downward along a fault. |
fault | a crack in earth's crust |
weathering | the breaking down of rocks into smaller pieces |
folded mountain | produced when land is squeezed together over time |
plate | a huge piece of Earth's crust that moves very slowly |