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Science Vocab

Erosion and Doposition

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Erosion The moving of weathered material from one location to another.
Deposition The laying down or settling of eroded material.
Meander A broad, C-shaped curve in a stream.
Longshore Current A current that flows parallel to the shoreline.
Delta A large deposit of sediment that forms where a stream enters a large body of water.
Abrasion The grinding away of rock or other surfaces as particles carried bh wind, water, or ice scrape against them.
Dune A pile of winblown sand.
Loess A crumbly, windblown deposit of sand and clay.
Mass wasting The downhill movement of a large mass of rocks or soil due to gravity.
Landslide Rapid, downhill movement of soil, loose rocks, and boulders.
Talus A pile of angular rocks and sediment from a rockfall.
Glacier A large mass of ice, formed by snow accumulation on land, that moves slowly across Earth's surface.
Till A mixture of various sizes of sediment that has been deposited by a glacier.
Moraine A mound or ridge of unsorted sediment deposited by a glacier.
Outwash Layered sediment deposited by streams of water that flow from a melting glacier.
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