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- chemical or mechanical process that beaks down and changes rocks on or near Earth's surface
- rate is infuenced by factors such as precipitation and temperature
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removal and transport of weathered materials from one location to another; agents such as
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- wind
- glaciers
- gravity
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| occurs when eroded materials are dropped in another location |
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forces that move or transport sediment:
- wind, water, gravity, ice, waves
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| the rate of change from place to place within a feild; also called slope |
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| measuere of volume of stream water that flows over a speicfic location in a particular ammount of time |
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| small pieces of rock that are moved and deposited by water, wind, glaciers, and gravity |
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| the characteristic shape of a valley eroded by a stream or rivers, as compared to a U-shaped valley |
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| the characteristic shape of a valley after it has been eroded by glaciers, especially mountain glacier, as compared to the V-shaped valley eroded by streams |
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| ridge or layer of mixed debris deposited by a melting glacier |
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| triangular deposit, usually made up of silt and clay particles that forms where a stream enters a large body of water |
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| broad, flat, fertile area extending out from a stream's bank that is covered with water during floods |
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| process of erosion in which wind-blown or water borne particles, such as sand, scrape aginst roeck surfaces or other materials and wear them away |
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curve or bend in a stream formed when a stream's slope decreases, water builds up in the stream's channel and moving water eroded away the sides of the stream bed |
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| a condition of the balancing out of opposing forces or actions, such as evaporation and condensation |
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| large, moving mass of ice that forms near Earth's poles and in mountinous regions at high elevation |
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| a pile or low ridge of sand, often just above or just below water level, deposited by waves and currents; found near ocean shores or within streams and rivers |
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| elongated landform that results when a glacier moves over an older moraine |
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| a lake formed when runoff and precipitation filled a kettle hole, which is a depression that formed when an ice block from a continental glacier became covered with sediments and melted |
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| area at the leading edge of a glacier, where outwash is deposited by meltwater streams |
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| a relatively flat-topped area |
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| a long, narrow, high, steep-sloped part of the landscape that is usually part of a mountain range |
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| a steep slope or cliff in layered rocks; often formed from certain rock layer that are resistant to wathering and erosion |
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