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ES Midterm Unit 4
Midterm Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| landscape | a plain, plateau, mountain, or lowland |
| kettle lake | a lake left when a block of glacial ice melts |
| moraine | ridges along the sides of a glacier |
| delta | fan-shaped land form where sediment deposits at the end of a river or stream |
| deposition | when sediments drop out or settle as a stream slows down |
| sorted | sediments that are separated by size by a stream or river |
| unsorted | sediments that are mixed up. (glacial till is an example) |
| u-shaped | a valley carved out by a glacier |
| v-shaped | a valley carved out by a riVer |
| watershed | where all the water drains in an area (includes a river and all of its tributaries) |