| A | B |
|---|
| Frost action | the water goes in the cracks and freezes |
| Chemical weathering | weathering that involves changes in the make up of rocks |
| weathering | the breaking down of rocks and other materials at the earths serfas |
| mechanical weathering | Weather that does not change the rock chemically |
| exfoliation | the breaking of rounded sheets or slabs parallel to rocks surface due to weathering |
| root pry | the rocks breaking apart caused by the roots of plants and trees |
| erosion | the process that the products of weathering that are moved from one place to another |
| deposition | the process by which the sediments are moved from one place to another |
| mass wasting | the downhill process of sediments moved by gravity |
| glaciers | a huge mass of moving ice and snow |
| sea cave | a hollowed out cliff |
| sea stack | a column of resistant rock left behind after erosion of a sea cliff |
| dunes | mounds of sand piled up from wind blowing sand |
| loess | a build up of fine particles of sand and silt deposited by the wind |
| wind brake | a structure that protects erosion by the wind |
| drainage system | a network of streams and other bodies of water that drains into a main river |
| drainage basin | when water that has flooded goes into a creek or stream |
| tributaries | a large stream or other body of water that flows into a main river |
| gravity | a force that pulls objects to the center of the Earth |
| plant acids | acids produced by plants that can disolve minerals |
