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Erotion
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is erosion | the process of which sediment and other materials are moved from one place to anothe |
| what is ground water? | water beneath earths surface |
| What is a flood plain? | a area of land that gets flooded alot. |
| What is a delta? | When a stream empties in a body of water, like a lake or ocean |
| what is deposition? | The process by which eroded material is dropped |
| what is the alluvial fan? | a fan shaped deposit that forms on dry land |
| what is erotion? | the process of which sediment and other materials are moved from one place to another |
| what is a dune? | mounds of wind-depositedsand are called dunes |
| what is loess | Thick deposits of windblown fine-grained sediments are known as loess. |
| what is a glacier | a large mass of moving ice that forms by the compacting of snow caused by natural forces |
| what is the glacial drift? | the general term for for all the materials carried and deposited by a glacier |