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Erosion vocab 2
Last 15 vocab words of ch.4
Question | Answer |
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large piece of a glacier that enters the ocean | iceberg |
small glacial valley above a main valley | hanging valley |
rock material deposited by a glacier | till |
boulder left behind by a retreating glacier | erratic |
ridge of till deposited by a melting glacier | moraine |
oval-shaped mound of till | drumlin |
lake formed by a retreating glacier | kettle lake |
flat section of rock formed by the erosion of a sea cliff | wave-cut terrace |
gap formed when waves cut completely through a section of rock | sea arch |
column of rock remaining after the collapse of a sea arch | sea stack |
movement of water parallel to a shoreline | longshore current |
long, narrow deposit of sand connected at one end to the shore | spit |
long, offshore underwater deposit of sand parallel to a shoreline | sand bar |
removal of loose material from Earth's surface by wind | deflation |
thick deposits of wind-blown dust | loess |