For the test on 5/1/14
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| sediment | The material moved by erosion
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| deposition | the process by which sediment is laid down in a new location
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| erosion | the process by which natural forces move weathered rock and soil from one place to another
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| water | the major agent of the erosion that has shaped Earth’s surface
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| river | formed when several streams flow together to form larger body of flowing water
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| trubutary | a stream that flows into a larger stream
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| runoff | the water that moves over the Earth’s surface after a rainfall
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| meander | a looplike bend in the course of river
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| caves | can be formed when groundwater and carbon dioxide create carbonic acid and erode limestone
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| oxbow lake | a meander that has been cut off from the river.
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| glacier | any large mass of moving ice and snow, which form u-shaped valleys
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| valley glacier | a long, narrow glacier that forms when snow and ice build up high in mountain valleys
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| continental glacier | covers much of a continent and is much larger and thicker than a valley glacier
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| The times in the past when continental glaciers covered large parts of the earth’s surface were called | ice age
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| The Great Lakes were created by | continental glaciers during the last ice age
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| As a glacier flows over the land, it picks up rocks in a process called | plucking
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| till | the sediments directly deposited by glaciers
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| The till deposited at the edges of a glacier forms a ridge called | moraine
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| Explain the type of erosion that creates caves, including how carbonic acid forms, and the type of rock that makes up caves | chemical weathering, carbon dioxide and rainwater, and limestone
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| Explain how glaciers form and compare and contrast valley and continental glaciers | huge amount of snowfall and very cold, valley are slimmer and longer, continental are larger and wider.
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