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January 10, 2011
Vocabulary for Earth Changes and the Sun, Earth, and Moon
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are materials that help slow down erosion? | barriers |
| What landforms create when the sediment deposited from a river is eroded away? | delta |
| When sediment is deposited in a new location it is called? | deposition |
| The movement of broken down material by water, wind, or ice is called? | erosion |
| When large amounts of materials move across the land in a path, wath is it called? | flow |
| A large moving body of ice is a __________. | glacier |
| Physical feature of Earth's surface; i.e. mountain, plateau, sand dune, beach, canyon, delta, valley are called _____________. | landforms |
| Any form of water falling from the clouds to Earth. | Precipitation |
| Water from rain or melted snow that flows along Earth's surface into bodies of water. | runoff |
| Pieces of shells, rocks, soil, sand, and the remains of organisms | sediment |
| The breaking down and wearing away of material is called | weathering |
| The movement of air. | wind |
| The remains or evidence of organisms that lived long ago. | fossils |
| What is formed from the sediments of rocks that have been compacted and cemented? | sedimentary rocks |
| Created by the impact of meteoroids, comets, and asteroids. | craters |
| This is the shape of the Sun, Moon, and Earth. | spherical |
| This object in the object that produces the energy of heat and light. | Sun |
| This holds the universe together. | gravity |
| How much would you weigh on the Moon since it has gravity than Earth. | one sixth |
| This is not found on the Sun Moon. | atmosphere |
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