| A | B |
|---|
| shoreline | The boundary between land and a body of water. |
| beach | An area of a shoreline made up of material deposited by waves. |
| longshore current | The movement of water near and parallel to the shoreline. |
| saltation | The movement of sand-sized particles by a skipping and bouncing action in the direction the wind is blowing. |
| deflation | The lifting and removal of fine sediment by wind. |
| abrasion | The grinding and wearing down of rock surfaces by other rock or sand particles. |
| dune | A mound of wind-deposited sand. |
| loess | Thick deposits of windblown, fine-grained sediments. |
| glacier | An enormous mass of moving ice. |
| iceberg | A large piece of ice that breaks off an ice shelf and drifts into the ocean. |
| crevasse | A large crack that forms where a glacier picks up speed or flows over a high point. |
| glacial drift | All materieals carried and deposited by glaciers. |
| stratified drift | Rock material that has beern sorted and deposited in layers by water flowing from the melted ice of a glacier. |
| till | Unsorted rock material that is deposited directly by glacial ice when it melts. |
| mass movement | The movement of any material downslope. |
| rock fall | A group of loose rocks that fall down a steep slope. |
| landslide | A sudden and rapid movement of a large amount of material downslope. |
| mudflow | The rapid movement of a large mass of mud/rock and soil mixed with a large amount of water that flows downhill. |
| creep | The extremely slow movement of material downslope. |
