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ErosionandDeposition
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Erosion | The moving of weathered material, or sediment, 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 by wind, water, or ice scrape against them |
| Dune | A pile of windblown sand |
| Loess | A crumbly, windblown deposit of silt 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 an 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 flows from a melting glaciers |