Erosion

Question 1

Process by which wind, water, ice, or gravity transports soil and sediment from one location to another.

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Erosion

Question 2

The breaking down or dissolving of rocks and minerals on the surface of the Earth.

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Weathering

Question 3

Continuous movement of water from the ocean to the atmosphere to the land and back to the ocean.

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Water Cycle

Question 4

The process that changes liquid water to gaseous water.

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Evaporation

Question 5

The process by which water vapor in the air is changed into liquid water.

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Condensation

Question 6

Water released from clouds in the form of rain, freezing rain, sleet, snow, or hail.

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Precipitation

Question 7

Water running off the land surface.

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Surface Runoff

Question 8

Stream that flows into a lake pr into a larger stream.

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Tributary

Question 9

Area of land that is drained by a river system.

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Watershed

Question 10

Area of high ground that separated watersheds.

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Continental Divide

Question 11

Process in which material is laid down.

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Deposition

Question 12

Fan-shaped mass of material deposited at the mouth of a stream.

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Delta

Question 13

An area along a river that forms from sediments deposited when the river overflows its banks.

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Floodplain

Question 14

The upper surface of underground water

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Water Table

Question 15

A facility in which a combination of various processes are used to treat industrial wastewater and remove pollutants.

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sewage Treatment Plants

Question 16

A buried, water-tight container usually made of concrete, fiberglass, or polyethylene.

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Septic Tank

Question 17

Isolated outcrops of rock standing in the ocean.

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Sea Stacks

Question 18

Develops when a headland protruding into the ocean causes waves to refract around it.

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Sea Arches

Question 19

Formed primarily from erosion caused by waves.

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Sea Caves

Question 20

A shallow-water shelf inclining gently away from the base of an eroded sea cliff.

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wave-cut Terraces

Question 21

A point of usually high land jutting out into a body of water.

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Headlands

Question 22

A narrow, gently sloping strip of land that lies along the edge of an ocean, lake, or river.

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Beach

Question 23

A glacier is a large, perennial accumulation of crystalline ice, snow, rock, sediment, and often liquid water that originates on land and moves down slope.

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Glacier

Question 24

A general term applied to all rock material transported by a glacier and deposited directly by or from the ice, or by running water emanating from a glacier.

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Glacier Drift

Question 25

Unsorted material deposited directly by glacial ice and showing no stratification.

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Till

Question 26

Sediments deposited by glacial melt water that are sorted and layered

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Stratified Drift