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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| the movement of weathered materials by water,wind, or ice | erosion |
| the process in which materials eroded by water, wind, or ice are dropped in a new place | deposition |
| a large body of ice that moves very slowly | glacier |
| a ridge of rocks left by a glacier | moraine |
| mountains that formed when blocks of rock slid upward or downward along a fault | fault-block mountain |
| a crack in earth's crust | fault |
| the breaking down of rocks into smaller pieces | weathering |
| produced when land is squeezed together over time | folded mountains |
| a huge piece of earth's crust that moves very slowly | plate |