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| meandering | Streams develop wide curves that erode the outside of the curve more than the inside are _______________. |
| sinkholes | Collapsing cave roofs can cause: |
| glacial till | Materials carried by glaciers are known as: |
| plucking | Freeze thaw process that pops up rocks underneath the glacier: |
| deposition | ___________ is the process of laying down eroded material in new locations. |
| soil | __________ is the end product of weathering, defined as a mixture of fine, weathered rock particles, air, organic matter, and water |
| chemical weathering | _________ occurs primarily when rainwater dissolves minerals in rocks. |
| wind | __________ abrades rock by grinding airborne sediments against them. |
| continental glaciers | Huge sheets of ice that cover many square miles: |
| ice wedging | _______________ works water expanding when it freezes, trickling further into the crack when it thaws, and expanding again when it refreezes. |
| young | Fast moving streams in the headwaters cut a v-shaped valley and can carry relatively large sediments downstream are ___________ streams. |
| alpine glaciers | Rivers of ice and snow that form in mountains: |
| load | _________ is the amount and type of sediment that a stream carries. |
| delta | Mass of sediment deposited where a stream enters another body of water: |
| landslides | _____________ occur when rock and soil slide down a slope, leaving a path of destruction |
| thousands | It takes _________ of years to produce a few inches of topsoil. |
| waves | Major agent of erosion along coastlines: |
| weathering | Disintegration or decomposition of rock at or near Earth’s surface |
| mudflows | ___________ occur when soil is saturated and flows like wet cement down a slope |
| rockfalls | __________ occur where weathered rocks are located on steep slopes |
| mass movement | Downward movement of rock or soil due to gravity alone is: (general term) |
| floodplain | Flat areas along a stream that are covered by water only during a flood: |
| erosion | The removal and transport of preexisting rock or soil: |
