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process by which natural forces
move weathered rock and soil from one place to another |
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| the material moved by erosion |
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occurs where the agents of
erosion lay down sediment |
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processes that move sediment
downhill |
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stream that flows into a
larger stream |
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land area from which a river
and its tributaries collect
their water |
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high ground between two
drainage basins |
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flat, wide area of land along
a river |
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looplike bend in the course
of a river |
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a meander that has been cut
off from the river |
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wide, sloping deposit of sediment formed where a stream
leaves a mountain range |
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| sediment deposited where a river flows into an ocean or lake |
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any large mass of ice that
moves slowly over land |
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long, narrow glacier that forms
when snow and ice build up
high in a mountain valley |
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a glacier that covers much
of a continent or large island |
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times in the past when
continental glaciers covered
large parts of the Earth's surface |
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as glaciers flow over land,
this process picks up rocks |
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a mixture of sediments that a
glacier deposits directly on
the surface |
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a ridge formed when till is
deposited at the edges of
a glacier |
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forms when a depression left in
till by melting ice fills
with water |
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an area of wave-washed sediment
along a coast |
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a process by which beach
sediment moves down the beach
with the current as repeated
waves
hit the beach |
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a beach that projects like
a finger out into the water |
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process by which wind removes
surface materials |
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a deposit of wind-blown
sand |
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fine, wind-deposited
sediment |
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events that result from
Earth's processes that can
cause damage and endanger
human life |
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