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| SEDIMENT | SMALL PARTICLES PRODUCED BY THE WEATHERING OF ROCKS.
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| EROSION | THE ACTION OF WEATHERED MATERIAL MOVING FROM ONE LOCATION TO ANOTHER.
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| AGENT OF EROSION | A VEHICLE, SUCH AS GRAVITY, WATER, WIND OR ICE THAT CAUSES EROSION.
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| DEPOSITION | A DROPPING OF SEDIMENT AND ROCKS IN A NEW LOCATION BY GRAVITY, WIND, WATER OR ICE.
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| MASS MOVEMENT | EROSION THAT OCCURS WHERE GRAVITY IS THE PRIMARY FACTOR.
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| LOAD | THE SEDIMENT THAT A STREAM CARRIES.
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| DELTA | THE AREA AT THE MOUTH OF A RIVER WHERE SEDIMENT IS DEPOSITED.
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| BIRDFOOT DELTA | THE NAME OF AN UNUSUALLY SHAPED DELTA THAT SPRAWLS IN ALL DIRECTIONS.
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| DEFLATION | THE ACTION OF THE WIND BLOWING AND PICKING UP LOOSE SEDIMENT AND CARRYING IT AWAY.
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| DUST STORM | A STORM CAUSED BY WIND BLOWING SMALL, LOOSE PARTICLES INTO THE AIR.
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| SANDSTORM | A STORM CAUSED BY WIND BLOWING SAND PARTICLES ALONG THE GROUND.
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| GLACIER | ICE FORMATION, FORMED WHERE LAYERS OF UNMELTED SNOW COMPACT INTO ICE.
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| PLUCHING | THE ACTION OF A GLACIER PULLING A HUGE PIECE OF BEDROCK LOOSE AS THE GLACIER SLIDES DOWN A MOUNTAIN.
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| MORAINE | THE PILE OF SEDIMENT DEPOSITED BY A GLACIER AS IT MELTS AND RECEDES.
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| GRAVITY | PRIMARY FORCE BEHIND EROSION
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