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16 Cards in this Set
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erosion
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a process that wears away surface materials and moves them from one place to another
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deposition
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agents of erosion drop and sediments they are carrying as they lose energy
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mass movement
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any type of erosion that happens as gravity moves materials downslope
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slump
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a mass of material slips soun along a cuved surface
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creep
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occurs when sediments slowly shift their poditions downhill
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glacier
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large mass of ice and snow moving on land under its own weight
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plucking
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pieces of rock then are lifted out by the ice
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till
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mixture of different-sized sediments
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moraine
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a ridge
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outwach
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material deposited by the meltwater from a glacier most often beyond the end of the glacier
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deflation
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it blows across loose sediment remobing small particles such as silt and sand
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abrasion
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windblown sediment strikes rock the surface of the rock gets scraped and worn away
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loess
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wind deposits of fine-grained sediments
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dune
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a mound of sediments drifted by the wind
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cirques
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valley glaciers erode bowl-shape basins
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arete
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two balley glaciers side by side erode a mountain a long ridge
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