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BJU Chapter 12B

Created by Derek and Cole

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Mass wasting When rocks and soil move by gravity alone, Geologists call this?
Landslides Rapid mass wasting of earth materials downhill?
A stream's load What is the total mass of sediment that it transports?
Satation Sediment particles hop repeatedly over the stream bottom as they are carried along by the flow?
Sorting Sediments particles become sorted by size?
Delta What forms when a stream enters a larger body of water?
Alluvial fans A delta-like deposit may also form where in termittent streams in dry mountainous areas empty into flat desert?
Deflation What is the process of being blown away by wind?
Abrasion Wind driven sand erodes exposed rocks?
Ventifact An object formed by wind?
Dunes What develops when something near the ground slows wind enough to cause it to drop the sediment?
Glacier A large mass of dense ice that flows under the influence of gravity?
Glacier drift All deposits of sediment from glaciers are called?
Till A sediment consisting of particles of various sizes and deposited by melting glaciers or ice sheets?
Moraines A mass of rocks and sediments carried down and deposited by a glacier?
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