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| the process that wears away surface materials and moves them from one place to another |
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| a large mass of ice and snow moving on land under its own weight |
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| continental glaciers and valley glaciers |
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| the two types of glaciers |
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| a mixture of different-sized sediment |
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| when wind blows across loose sediment, removing small particles such as silt and sand |
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| a type of erosion that occurs when windblown sediment strike rocks and sediment, polishing and pitting their surface |
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| a mound of sediment drifted by the wind |
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| amount of sand or sediment available, the wind speed and direction and the amount of vegetation present |
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| factors that determine the shape of a dune |
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