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ABRASION
Process of erosion in which wind-blown or waterborne particles, such as sand, scrape against rock surfaces or other materials and wear them away.
BREAKING WAVE
a wave whose amplitude reaches a critical level at which some process can suddenly start to occur that causes large amounts of wave energy to be dissipated.
CHEMICAL WEATHERING
Process by which rocks and minerals undergo changes in their composition due to chemical reactions with agents such as acids, water, oxygen, and carbon dioxide
DELTA
Triangular deposit usually made up of silt and clay particles, that forms where a stream enters a large body of stream.
EROSION
Movement of weathered materials from one location to another by agents such as water, wind, glaciers and gravity.
FLOOD PLAIN
- broad, flat, fertile area extending out from a stream's bank that is covered with water during floods
GLACIER
Large, moving mass of ice that forms near earth's poles and in mountainous regions at high elevations
MASS MOVEMENT
Down slope movement of earth materials, due to gravity, that can occur suddenly or very slowly depending on the weight of the material, its resistance to sliding and whether it can trigger m such as an earthquake, is invoked
MEANDER
bend/curve in a stream
PHYCIAL WEATHERING
large rocks broken down into smaller and smaller particle sizes.
SANDBAR
In the zone of breaking waves, deposited sediments can create a series of mounds
SEDIMENT
- Solid particles deposited on earth's surface that can form sedimentary rocks by process such as weathering, erosion, deposition and lithification
STREAM
a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth / A flow of water in a channel or bed, as a brook, rivulet, or small river.
U-SHAPED VALLEY
A steep-walled valley shaped by glacial erosion into the form of a U.
V-SHAPED VALLEY
A valley whose cross-sectional shape resembles the shape of a V; the valley probably has a river running down the point of the V.
WATERSHED
Land area drained by a stream system.
WEATHERING
Chemical or Mechanical process that breaks down and changes rocks in or near earth’s surface and those rate is influenced such as precipitation and temperature.