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earth's surface
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| delta | A landform at the mouth of a river made by sand silt soil and rocks deposited by moving water |
| deposition | The process in which wind or ice build up the earth's surface by dropping sediment in new locations |
| erosion | The process in which gravity water ice and wind move sediment from one place to another on the earth's surface |
| Mouth | Where a river meets a lake or ocean |
| river | a body of flowing water that empties into an ocean valley lake or another river |
| riverbed | the bottom of a river |
| sediment | Materials such as sand silt soil and rocks that have been carried along and deposited by water wind or ice |
| slope | The inclined surface or a hill or mountain |
| source | where a river begins |
| freshwater | water found in rivers lakes and groundwater |
| groundwater | the water in soil and porous rocks underground |
| spring | a small stream of water flowing naturally from the earth |
| weathering | the breakdown of large rock into smaller pieces of rock |
| glacier | a large slow moving sheet of ice |
| earthquake | a sudden movement of Earth's crust along the fault |
| sinkhole | a natural hole that forms in the Earth's surface as a result of weathering |
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