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Semester 1 cards
Vocabulary Words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Erosion | The process by which wind,water,ice,or gravity transports soil and sediment from one to another |
| glacier | A large mass of moving ice. |
| cirques | A bowl-shaped depressions where glacial ice cuts back into the mountain walls. |
| U-shaped valleys | Form when a glacier erodes a river valley. The valley changes from its original V shape to a U shape. |
| Horns | Are sharp pyramid-shaped peaks that form when three or more cirque glaciers erode a mountain. |
| Aretes | Are jagged ridges that form between two or more cirques that cut into the same mountain. |