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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Erosion | The moving of weathered material or sediment from 1 location or another |
| Deposition | The laying down or settlingof eroded material |
| Meander | A broad, C shaped curve in a stream |
| Longshore current | A current that flows parallel to a 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 by wind, water, or ice scrape against them |
| Dune | A pile of windblown sand |
| Loess | A crumbly, windblown deposit of or clay |
| Mass wasting | The downhill movement of a large mass of rock 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 depositited by a glacier |
| Outwash | layered sediment deposited by streams of water that flow from a melting glacier |
| What is a slump | A type of mass wasting where the materials moves slowly in a large mass |
| What is a creep | It is where the materials moves too slowly to be noticeable causing trees and other objects to lean over |
| What is an alpine glacier | It is a glacier that forms in mountains and flows downhill |
| How does water deposition change earth surface | By transporting sand to beaches through rivers |
| How does wind erosion and deposition change earth surface | By wind carrying sediments that cuts and polishes exposed rocks. |
| How does water erosion change earth surface | Because waves chrash onto shores and erode loose sand, gravel, and rock along coastlines. |