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Mass Movement, water, wind, waves, glaciers

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What is mass movement and what causes it? Mass movement is when land moves downhill. Gravity
What is the material moved by erosion called? sediment
What is deposition? when the agents of erosion lay down sediment.
tiny grooves in the soil Rills
a large groove in the soil that carries runoff after it rains Gullys
a channel where water is continually flowing downhill Stream
a large stream River
landscape that has a lot of caves and sinkholes Karst Topagraphy
a calcite deposit that hangs from the ceiling of the cave stalactite
calcite, is the shape of a cone, and builds up of the cave floor stalagmite
the sediment deposited directly by a glacier Till
mounds or ridges of till Moraine
long mound of till smoothed in the direction of a glacier Drumlin
a small depression that is formed when a block of ice melts in till
pile of sand above sea level. It protects the main land from storm surge Barrier Beach
a long ridge of sand parallel to the shore. It is formed when incoming waves carrying sand deposit the sand Sandbar
a beach that projects into the water like a finger. It is formed from deposition of a longshore drift Spit
What is the difference between a sand dune and a loess? The difference between sand dunes and a loess is that a sand dune is made up of courser sediment and a loess is finer sediment. Also, sand dunes can be larger and loess can be fertile for plating
What is runoff? water that moves over Earth’s surface
What are the four types of mass movement landslide, mudslide, creep, slump
when rock and soil slide down a steep slope landslide
when a mixture of water, rock, and soil, slide downhill mudslide
when a mass of rock and soil slip down a slope in one large mass slump
when soil and rock go downhill very slowly. It happens very slow and tilts objects at angles creep
What features are made by deposits from rivers deltas and alluvial fans
The process where wind picks up sediment and puts it down is called .
What force causes a wave to slow down and break when it reaches shallow water? friction
What land features are made from wave erosion? wave cut cliff, sea stack, sea arch, sea caves
when waves erode a hollow area in the rock A sea cave
when the base of the rock is eroded and the rock above it collapses
when waves erode a hole through the softer rock that is under the harder rock sea arch
when the arch collapses and leaves a pillar of rock sea stack
How do waves form?
when wind removes surface materials deflation
when currents parallel to the beach make sediment move down the beach long shore drift
weakest agent of erosion wind
only effective in deserts wind
erodes by impact and abrasion waves
when glaciers pick up rocks plucking
The time where continental glaciers cover much of the Earth ice age
fine, wind deposited sediment leoss
a pile of sand that is formed because wind has struck an obstacle sand dune
a glacier that is formed on a mountain and goes in one direction
glaciers that are on land, very large, and go in all directions continental glacier
a large mass of ice that moves slowly over land glacier
a smaller stream that flows into a larger river
a land area where a river and its tributary's collect water drainage basin
high ground between drainage basins divide
Divide that runs through the rocky mountains continental divide
large groove or channel that carries runoff after it rains gully
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