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Earth ch.3
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Erosion | the process by which water wind ice or gravity moves weathered rock particles |
| sediment | small solid pieces of material that come from rocks or the remains of organisms |
| deposition | process by which sediment is laid down in new locations |
| gravity | the attractive force between objects, the force that moves objects downhill |
| mass movement | any one of several processes by which gravity moves sediment downhill |
| runoff | water that flows over the ground surface rather than soaking into the ground |
| rill | a tiny groove in soil made by flowing water |
| gully | a large channel in soil that carries runoff water after a rainstorm |
| stream | a channel through which water is continually flowing down hill |
| tributary | a stream or river that flows into a larger river |
| flood plain | the flat wide area of land along a river |
| meander | a loop like bend in the coarse of a river |
| oxbow lake | a meander cut of from a river |
| delta | a landform made of sediment that is decomposited where a river flows into an ocean or lake |
| allvia fan | a wide sloping deposit of sediment formed where a stream leaves a mountain range |
| ground water | water that fills the cracks and spaces underground soil and rock layers |
| stalactite | an icicle like structure that hangs from the ceiling of a cave; hold TITE to the tops of caves |
| stalagmite | a column like form that grows upwards from the floor of a cave; I LAG/ Freeze to the ground of caves |
| karst topography | a region in which a later of limestone close to the surface creates deep valleys , caverns,and sinkholes |
| Glacier | any large mass of ice that moves slowly over land |
| continental glacier | a glacier that covers much of a continent or large island |
| ice age | time in earths history during which glaciers covered large parts of the surface |
| valley glacier | a long narrow glacier that forms when snow and ice build up in a mountain valley |
| plucking | the process by which a glacier picks up rocks as it flows over the land |
| till | the sediments deposited directly by a glacier |
| moraine | a ridge formed by the till deposited at the edge of a glacier |
| kettle | a small depression that forms when a chunk of ice is left in glacial till |
| headland | a part of the shore that sticks out into the ocean |
| beach | wave-washed sediment along a coast |
| longshore drift | the movement of water and sediment down a beach caused by waves coming into shore at an angle |
| spit | a beach formed by longshore drift that projects like a finger out in to the water |
| deflation | the process by which wind removes surface materials |
| sand dune | a deposit of wind blown sand |
| loess | a wind formed deposit made of fine particles of clay and silt |
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