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Erosion vocab 2
Last 15 vocab words of ch.4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| large piece of a glacier that enters the ocean | iceberg |
| small glacial valley above a main valley | hanging valley |
| rock material deposited by a glacier | till |
| boulder left behind by a retreating glacier | erratic |
| ridge of till deposited by a melting glacier | moraine |
| oval-shaped mound of till | drumlin |
| lake formed by a retreating glacier | kettle lake |
| flat section of rock formed by the erosion of a sea cliff | wave-cut terrace |
| gap formed when waves cut completely through a section of rock | sea arch |
| column of rock remaining after the collapse of a sea arch | sea stack |
| movement of water parallel to a shoreline | longshore current |
| long, narrow deposit of sand connected at one end to the shore | spit |
| long, offshore underwater deposit of sand parallel to a shoreline | sand bar |
| removal of loose material from Earth's surface by wind | deflation |
| thick deposits of wind-blown dust | loess |