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34 Cards in this Set
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erosion |
the state or act of being eroded the process of wind or etc taking away rock |
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sediment |
small solid pices of material that come from rock or the remians of organisms |
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deposition |
process in which sediment is put in a new location |
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gravity |
the attractive force between two objectss the force that makes objects go downhill |
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mass movement |
anyone of several processes by whoch gravity moves sediment downhill |
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runoff |
water that flows over the ground surface rather then soaking into the ground |
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rill |
a tiny groove in soil made by flowing water |
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gully |
a large channel in soil that carries runoff after a rainstorm |
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stream |
a channel through which water is continually flowing downhill |
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tributary |
a stream or river that flows into a larger river |
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flood plain |
the wide flat area of land along a river |
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meander |
a looplike bend in the courdse of a river |
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osbow lake |
a meander cut off from a river |
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delta |
a landform made of sediment that is deposited where a river flows into |
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allivial fan |
a wide sloping deposit of sediment formed where a stream leaves a mountain range |
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groundwater |
water that fills the cracks and spaces in underground soul and rock layers |
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slatecluite |
an icicle like structure that hangs from the ceiling of a cavern |
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stlagimite |
a columnlike form that grows upward from the floor of a cevern |
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karst topograghy |
a region in which a layer of limestone close to the surface creates deep valleys caverns and sinkholes |
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glacier |
any large mass of ice that moves slowly over land |
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contintenal glacier |
a glacier that cover much of a contintent or large island |
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ice age |
time in earths history during which glaircers covered large parts of the surface |
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valley glacier |
a long narrow glacier that forms when snow and ice build up in a mountain valley |
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plucking |
the process by which a glacier pucks up rocks as it flows over the land |
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till |
the sediment deposited directly by a glacier |
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moriane |
a ridge formed by the till depostited at the edge if a glacier |
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kettle |
a small depression that forms when a chick of ice is left in a glacier till |
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headland |
a part of the shore that sticks out into the ocean |
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beach |
wave washed sediment along a coast |
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longshore drift |
tge movemnt of water and sediment down a beach caused by waves comeing in to shore at an angles |
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spit |
a beach formed by kongshore drift that projects like a finger out of the water |
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deflation |
the process by which wind removes from surface materials |
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sand dune |
a deposit of wind blown sand |
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loess |
a wind formed deposit made of fine particles of clay and silt |
