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| What causes Mass Movement? | Gravity
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| What is Mass Movement? | When a mass of land moves
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| What are the four types of Mass Movement? | A Landslide, a Slump, a Mudflow, and a Creep
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| What is the material that is moved by erosion? | Sediment
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| What is a landslide? | When rock and soil quickly slide down a steep slope.
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| What is a Slump? | A mass of rock and soil that suddenly slips down a slope.
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| What is a Mudflow? | The rapid downhill movement of a mixture of water, rock, and soil.
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| What is a Creep? | The very slow downhill movement of rock and soil.
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| What is Deposition? | When the agents of erosion lay down sediment.
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| What is the major agent that has shaped Earth’s surface? | Moving Water
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| What is runoff? | All the remaining water that moves over Earths surface.
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| What are the 5 factors that control the amount of runoff? | 1.The amount of rain in an area.
2.Vegetation.
3.The type of soil.
4.The shape of the land.
5.How people use the land.
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| What are Rills? | Tiny grooves in the soil
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| What are Gullys? | A large groove in the soil that carries runoff after a rainstorm.
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| What is a Stream? | A channel in which water is continually flowing down a slope.
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| What is a River? | A large stream.
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| What land features are created by water erosion? | 1.Valleys
2.Waterfalls
3.Floodplains
4.Meanders
5.Oxbow Lakes
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| What is a Valley? | Steep slopes along the river.
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| What is a Waterfall? | When water falls off a rock that is too hard to erode.
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| What is a Floodplain? | The flat wide are of land along a river.
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| What is a Meander? | A looplike bend in the course if a river.
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| What is an Oxbow Lake? | A meander that has been cut off from the river.
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| What features are made by deposits from rivers? | 1.Alluvial Fans
2.Deltas
3.Soil on flood plains
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| What is an Alluvial Fan? | A wide sloping deposit of sediment formed where a stream leaves a mountian range.
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| What is Delta? | Sediment deposited where a river flows in to an ocean or lake builds up a landform.
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| What is soil on flood plains? | When rivers flood and they leave sediment on the flood plains.
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| What is Karst Topography | Karst Topography is when the roof of a cave colllapses because of the erosion of the underlying limestone.
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| What is till? | The mixture of sediments that a glacier deposits directly on the surface after it melts.
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| What is the process where wind picks up sediment and moves it? | Deflation
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| What are the land features that can be made by glacial erosion. | A Cirque, an Arête, a Horn, a V & U shaped Valleys, and a Fjord.
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| What is a Moraine? | The till deposited at the edges of a glacier that forms a ridge.
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| What is a Drumlin? | A long mound of till that is smoothed in the direction of the glaciers flow.
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| What is a Kettle Lake? | A depression left in till by melting ice fills with water.
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| What force causes a wave to slow down and break when it reaches shallow water? | Friction
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