Earth's Surface
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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| delta | A landform at the mouth of a river made by the sand, silt, soil, and rocks deposited by moving water
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| deposition | The process in which water, wind, or ice build up the earth's surface by dropping sediment in new locations
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| erosion | The process in which gravity, water, ice, and wind move sediment from one place to another on the earth's surface
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| mouth | Where a river meets a lake, valley, or ocean
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| river | A body of flowing water that empties into an ocean, valley, lake, or another river
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| riverbed | The bottom of a river
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| sediment | Materials, such as sand, silt, soil, and rocks, that have been carried along and deposited by water, wind, or ice
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| slope | The inclined surface of a hill or mountain
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| source | Where a river begins
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| freshwater | water found in rivers, lakes, and groundwater
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| groundwater | the water in soil and porous rocks underground
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| spring | a small stream of water flowing naturally from the earth
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| weathering | the breakdown of large rock into smaller pieces of rock
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| glacier | a large, slow moving sheet of ice
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| earthquake | a sudden movement of Earth's crust along a fault
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| sinkhole | a natural hole that forms in the Earth's surface as a result of weathering
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