erosion vocab

Question 1

erosion

Answer 1

is the process that wears away the earth’s surface of material and moves one from another.

Question 2

Glacier

Answer 2

moving mass of ice and snow.

Question 3

Till

Answer 3

mixture of different sized sediments that are carried along.

Question 4

Creep

Answer 4

when sediments slowly inch there way down a hill.

Question 5

Slump

Answer 5

mass movement that happens when loose materials or rock layers slip down a slope.

Question 6

Rock slide

Answer 6

Mass movement of rock down a steep slope-fast.

Question 7

Mudslide

Answer 7

Thick mixture of sediments & water moving down a slope

Question 8

Abrasion

Answer 8

wind blown particles strike rock and erode it, like a sand blaster.

Question 9

Deflation

Answer 9

removal of small particles by wind. Flows away.

Question 10

Meander

Answer 10

curve cut into a stream channel and forms lakes

Question 11

Drainage basin

Answer 11

Is the land area wear a stream gets its water.

Question 12

Alluvial fan

Answer 12

triangle shaped deposeits of sediments. looks like a fan at bottom

Question 13

Moraine

Answer 13

Till is deposited and the front of the glacier in a long the ridge.

Question 14

Striations

Answer 14

Deep grooves left behind on bedrock after a glacier has moved through

Question 15

Loess

Answer 15

deposits of grained sediments brought by wind a long time ago.

Question 16

Delta

Answer 16

Sediments carried and deposited into a gulf, lake, or ocean.

Question 17

deposition

Answer 17

is the droping of sediments in a new location.

Question 18

Wind break

Answer 18

snow trapped and trees planted to reduce wind erosion.