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| the process by which natural forces move weathered rock and soil from one place to another |
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| pieces of rock, soil, or the remains of plants and animals |
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| occurs when the agents of erosion deposit, or lay down, the sediment |
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| the force that pulls you downward |
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| one of the several processes that moves sediment downhill |
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| water that moves over the land while carrying particles |
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| a large groove, or channel, in the soil that carries runoff after a rainstorm |
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| a channel along which water is continually flowing down a slope |
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| a stream or river that flows into a larger river |
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| the flat, wide area of land along a river |
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| a loop-like 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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| a built up landform formed by sediment depositing where a river meets an ocean or lake |
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| a wide, sloping deposit of sediment formed where a stream leaves a mountain range |
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| a deposit that hangs like an icicle from the roof of a cave |
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| a cone-shaped deposit that builds up from a cave floor |
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| a region in which a layer of limestone close to the surface creates deep valleys, caverns, and sinkholes |
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| a large mass of ice that moves slowly over land |
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| a glacier that covers much of a continent or large island |
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| times when continental glaciers have covered larger parts of Earth's surface |
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| a long, narrow glacier that forms when snow and ice build up high in a mountain valley |
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| the process by which a glacier picks up rock as it flows over land |
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| the mixture of sediments that a glacier deposits directly on the surface |
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| a ridge formed by the till deposited at the edges of a glacier |
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| a small depression that forms when a chunk of ice is left in glacial till |
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| the part of the shore that sticks out into the ocean |
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| an area of wave-washed sediment along a coast |
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| the process of beach sediment moving down the beach with the current |
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| a beach that projects like a finger out into the water |
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| the process by which wind removes surface materials |
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| a deposit of windblown sand |
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| fine pieces of windblown sediment |
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