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erosion
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process in which surface material's are worn away and transported from one place to the another by agents such as gravity water wind and glaciers
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deposition
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dropping of sediments that occur when an agent of erosion such as gravity a glacier wind or water losses its energy and can no longer carry its load
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mass movement
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any type of erosion that occurs as gravity moves material down -slope
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creep
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occurs when sediments slowly shift their way down hill
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plucking
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results in boulders gravel and sand being added to the bottom and sides of glacier
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moraine
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a large ridge of rocks and soil deposits by a glacier when it stop moving forward
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out wash
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Material deposit by the melt water from a glacier most be on the end of the glacier
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till
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This mixture of different sized sediments
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deflation
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when erosions earth surface
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abrasion
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When windblown sediments strike down the surface of the rock Get Scraped in one away by a process
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loess
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When deposit of fine grain sediments known as
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dune
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Is a mound of sediments drifted by wind
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