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Erosion and depostio

TermDefinition
erosion the process by which wind, water, ice, or gravity moved weathered rock and soil particles.
sediment Small solid materials that come from the small remains of organisms.
deposition Process in which sediment is laid down in new locations.
gravity The attractive force between two objects : the force that moves object downhill.
mass movement One of many processes in which gravity moves sediment down hill.
run off Water that flows over the ground surface rather than soaking into the ground.
rill A tiny groove in soil made from floating water.
gully A large channel in soil that carries a run off after a rainstorm.
stream A tunnel through which water is continually flowing downhill.
tribituary A stream or river that flows into a larger river.
flood plain A flat, long land of river that goes along the land
meander A loop like bend in the coarse of a river.
oxbow lake A meander cutoff from a river.
delta A land form made of sediment that is deposited where a river flows into a lake or ocean.
alluvial fan A wide sloping, deposit of sediment formed where a stream leaves a mountain range.
grroundwater Water that fills the cracks and spaces in underground soil and rock layers.
salacite An icicle-like that hangs from the top of a cavern.
stalagmite a column like form that grows upward from the floor of a cavern.
karst topography A region in which a layer of limestones close to the surface that creates deep valleys, and taverns.
glacier Any large mass of ice that moves over land.
continental glacier A glacier that covers most of continent or large island.
ice age time in earth's history during which glaciers covered large parts of the surface.
valley glacier A long narrow 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.
moriane A form ridged by the till deposited at the end of a glacier.
kettle a small depression that forms when a chunk of ice is left in glacial till.
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