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Miranda Fulciniti
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Mass Movement | Mass movement is the movement of surface material caused by gravity. |
| Erosion | the process of eroding or being eroded by wind, water, or other natural ag |
| Sediments | Material moved by erosion |
| Deposition | occurs where the the agents of erosion lay down sediment |
| Weathering | wear away or change the appearance or texture of (something) by long exposure to the air. |
| Mudslide | Rapid downhill movement of a mixture of water, rock and soil. |
| Slump | A mass of rock and soil suddenly slip down a slope. |
| Runoff | All the remaining water that moves over Earth's surface. |
| Rills | Runoff travels, forms tiny grooves in the soil |
| Gully | Larger groove, or channel, in the soil that carries runoff after a rain storm. |
| Stream | A channel along which water is continually flowing down a slope |
| Tributary | stream that flows into a larger stream |
| Drainage Basin | The land area from which a river and its tributaries collect their water |
| Divide | high ground between two drainage basins |
| Valley | a low area of land between hills or mountains, typically with a river or stream flowing through it |
| Waterfalls | a cascade of water falling from a height, formed when a river or stream flows over a precipice or steep incline. |
| Floodplain | The flat, wide area of land along a river |
| Meanders | A loop like bend in the course of a river |
| Oxbow Lake | A meander that has been cut off from a river |
| Alluvial Fan | wide, sloping deposits of sediment formed where a stream leaves a mountain range. |
| Delta | Where a river flows into the ocean |
| Valley Widening | River approaches sea level |
| V-shaped Valley | River flows and cuts a deeper valley |
| Ground water | the term geologists use for this underground water. |
| Stalactite | A deposit that hangs like an icicle |
| Stalagmite | Slow dripping builds up a cone-shape on the cave floor |
| Karst Topography | A type of landscape in rainy regions where there is limestone near the surface, characterized by caverns, sinkholes and valleys. |
| Abrasion | The wearing away of rock by grinding action |
| Friction | the force that opposes the motion of one suface as it moves across another suface |
| Ice age | When continental glacier cover large parts of Earth's surface |
| Glaciers | large mass of ice that moves slowly |
| River | A large stream |
| Gravity | The force that moves rock and other materials down hill |
| Creep | A very slow downhill movement of rock and soil. |
| Landslide | When rock and soil slide quickly down a steep slope |
| Till | the mixture of sediments that a glacier deposits directly on the surface. |
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