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Earth's Changing Surface _ Lesson 3 + 4
Vocabulary
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delta,  | A landform at the mouth of a river made by the sand, silt, soil, and rocks deposited by moving water |
| deposition | Process in which water, wind, or ice build up the earth's surface by dropping sediment in new locations |
| erosion | Process in which gravity, water, ice and wind move sediment from one place to another |
| mouth | where a river meets a lake, valley or ocean |
| river | A body of flowing water that empties into an ocean, valley, lake or another river |
riverbank,  | The sides of a river |
| riverbed | The bottom of a river |
| sediment | Materials, such as sand, silt, soild and rocks, that have been carried along and deposited by water, wind, or ice |
slope,  | The inclined surface of a hill or mountain |
| source | Where a river begins |
| weathering | The breaking down of rocks into smaller pieces |
| abrasion | The grinding down of one rock by another |
| gravity | The force that attracts all objects toward the center of the Earth |
| headwaters | The streams from which a river originates |
| floodplain | A flat area of land stretching out on either side of a river |
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