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14 Cards in this Set
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Creep-S1
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Occurs when soils move slowly downhill.
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Deposition-S1
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Dropping of sediment that occurs when water, wind, or glaciers lose their energy and can no longer carry the load.
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Erosion-S1
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Process that wears away surface materials and moves them from one place to another.
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Mass Movement-S1
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Any kind of erosion in which gravity moves sediments downhill.
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Slump-S1
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A mass movement that occurs when a mass of materials slips down a curved suface.
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Glacier-S2
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Large mass of ice and snow moving on land under its own weight.
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Moraine-S2
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Ridge of rocks and soil deposited by a glacier when it stops moving.
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Outwash-S2
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Material deposited by the water from a melting glacier.
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Plucking-S2
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Action in which a moving glacier picks up loose pieces of rock.
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Till-S2
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Mix of different-sized sediments that is deposited from the base of a glacier as it retreats.
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Abrasion-S3
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Type of erosion that occurs when windblown sediment scrapes and wears away rock.
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Deflation-S3
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Type of erosion that occurs when wind removes small particles of sediment from the land and leaves heavy peices of sediment.
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Dune-S3
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Mound of windblown sediment that piles up behind an object.
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Loess-S3
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Deposits of very fine-grained soil carried by the wind.
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