Glacier,Waves,Wind. Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
When Waves crash onto the beach at an angle,it will create this along the coastline. | long shore drift |
The process where wind picks up sediment and moves it is called | deflation |
a sharp ridge seperating two cirques. | arete |
a sharpened peak where a glacier carved away the sides. | horn |
a bowl shaped hollow eroded by a glacier | cirque |
large lakes eroded by plucking and abrasion | glacial lake |
forms where a glacier deposits mounds or ridges of till. | moraine |
formed by sliding over aa moraine | drumlin |
where a deppresion left in till by melting ice fills with water. | kettle lake |
what force causes a wave to slow down and break when it reaches shallow water | friction |
what land features are made from wave erosion? | sea cliff, sea caves, headlands. |
what are the features made by wave deposition? | barrier beach, sandbar, spit. |
what is the difference between a sand dune and a loess? | sand dunes are the mounds that form when wind drops sand and a loess is deposits of tiney pices of sediment that are dropped by wind. |
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