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ECS Ch. 3-3 and 3-4 vocabulary

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potential energyEnergy that is stored and available to be used later.
kinetic energyThe energy an object has due to its motion.
energyThe ability to do work or cause chamge.
frictionThe force that opposes the motion of one surface as it moves across another.
turbulenceA type of movement of water in which, rather than moving downstream, the water moves every which way.
abrasionThe grinding away of rock by other rock particles carried in water, ice, or wind.
loadThe amount of sediment that a river or stream carries.
slopeThe amount a river drops toward sea level over a given distance.
glacierA large mass of moving ice and snow on land.
valley glacierA long, narrow glacier that forms when snow and ice build up in a mountain valley.
continental glacierA glacier that covers much of a continent or large island.
tillThe sediments deposited directly by a glacier.
moraineA ridge formed by the till deposited at the edge of a glacier.
kettleA small depression that forms when a chunk of ice is left in glacial till.
drumlinA long mound of till that is smoothed in the direction of the glacier's flow.

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