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Erosion

is the process of waering down and carrinying away rocks.

Weathering

is the process that breaks down rocks and other substances.

mechanical weathering

The type of weathering in which rock is phisically broken into smaller pieces.

Uniformitarianism

Geologists make inferences based on principle.

chemical weathering

is the process that breaks down rock through chemical changes.

abrasion

refers to weathering away of rock by rock particles carried by water ice wind or gravity.

frost wedging

when the ice melts water seeps deeper into the cracks

oxidation

Iron combines with oxegen in the presence of water in a process.

Permeable

means that a material is full of tiny connected a

natural resources

is anything in the enviroment that humans use.

soil coservation

is the management of soil to limit its destruction

crop rotation

a farmer plants diffrent crops in a feild each year.

contour plowing

farmers plow their feilds along the curves of a slope instead of in straight rows.

conservation plowing

dead weeds and stalks of porevoiuse years crop are plowed into the ground to help return soil.

sediment

the process of erosion moves material

deposition

occurs where the agents of erosion deposit or lay down sediment

gravity

is the force that pulls you and your bike downwards

mass movment

any one of several processes that move sediment downhill

runoff

as water moves over land it carries particles with it

rills

as runoff travels if forms tiny grooves in the soil

gully

is a larg groove or channel in the gullies

stream

is a channel along which water is continually flowing down

tributary

is a strem or river taht flows into a larger river

meander

is a looplike bend in the course of a river

oxbow lake

is a meander that has cut off from the river

flood plain

the flat wide area of land along a river

runoff

As water moves over land it carries particles with it

rills

as runoff travles it froms tiny grooves in the soil

gully

is a larg groove or channel in the soil that carries after a rainstorm

stream

is a channel along which water is continually flowing down a slope

tributary

is a stream or river that flows into a larger river

meander

is a looplike bend in the course of a river

oxbow lake

is a meander that has been cut off from the river

flood plain

the flat wife area of land along a river

alluvial fan

is a wide sloping deposit of sediment formed

delta

sediment deposites where a river flows into an ocean or lake bulids up a landform

glacier

as any larg mass oof ice that slowly moves over land

continatial glacier

is a glacier that convers much of a continital or larg island

ice ages

most of the continential glaciers coverd a part of Earths surface

valley glacier

is a long narrow glacier that forms when snow and ice build up high in a mountain valley

plucking

as a glacier flows over land it picks up rocks

till

till is made up of particlaes of many diffrent sizes

glacier

a larg mass of ice that moves slowly over land.

continental glacier

is a glacier that covers much of a continent or larg island