Changing Earth's Surface
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donovanscience on May 12, 2010
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Erosion | the process of moving sediment from one place to another |
| Weathering | the process that crumbles, cracks, and breaks rocks (slow change by wind and water) |
| Deposition | the natural process of laying down a deposit of something |
| Glaciers | a large mass of sloving ice and snow that carves new features and deposits sediments |
| Landslide | a slide of a large mass of dirt and rock down a mountain or cliff |
| Mudslide | landslides that occur when loose soil and rocks are mixed with water |
| Creep | the slow downhill movement of weathered rock material |
| Slump | a mass of rock and soil suddenly slips down a slope |
| Alpine glacier | a narrow, wedge-shaped mass of ice that forms in a small mountainous region |
| Continental Glacier | an enormous body of ice that covers a significant part of a large landmass |
| Plucking | the process by which a glacier picks up rocks as it flows over the land |
| Moraine | a ridge formed by the till deposited at the edge of a glacier |
| Kettle | a hollow (typically filled by a lake) that results from the melting of a mass of ice trapped in glacial deposits |
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