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slow earth changes
Question | Answer |
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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 |