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| Weathering | The breaking down of rocks and other materials at the Earth's surface |
| Mechanical Weathering | Weathering that does not envolve changes in the chemical make of rocks |
| Chemical Weathering | Weathering that envolves changes in the chemical makeup of rocks |
| Abrasion | The wearing away of a substance by solid particles carried by wind,water,or other forces |
| Erosion | The process by which the products of weathering are moved from one place to another |
| Deposition | The process by which sediments are laid down in new locations |
| Deflaytion | The type of wind erosion that removes loose materials such as clay, silt and sand from the land |
| Glaciers | A large mass of moving ice and snow |
| Waves | Waves are rock and sand that has been crushed when the waves crash up against the beach |
| Wind | Wind blows sand and soil around makeing thins called dunes |
| Drainage Systems | The network of streams and other bodies of running water that ultimately drain into an area's main river |
| Drainage Basin | The area drained by a main river and its channels |
| Tributaries | A large stream or small river that follows into an area's main river |
| Loess | Accumulations of fine partiles of sand and silt deposited by wind |
| Oasis | Wind erodes the dessert sands down to a depth where water is present , it makes that area very green with trees,shrubsand grasses |
| Dunes | A mound of sand deposited by the wind |
| Sea Stacks | A column of resistant rock left behind after a sea cliff has been eroded away |
| Sea Cave | A hollowed out portion of a sea cliff |
| Sea Cliff | A steep face of rock produced by wave action |
| Windbreak | They are formed by fences,trees or bushes that are used to slow wind erosion |
