5 Sci Ch 3

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What type of mass movement can result in gravestones and fenceposts tilting at odd angles?

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creep

Front

What is the force that pulls rock and soil down slopes?

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gravity

Front

Waves erode the land through impact and

Back

abrasion

Front

The Missouri River can be called a tributary because it

Back

flows into the Mississippi River

Front

When a river flows out of a steep, narrow mountain valley, an alluvial fan forms because

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the river water slows down

Front

Which of the following resulted in the Great Lakes of North America? mass movement, water erosion, glacial erosion, wave erosion

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glacial erosion

Front

The amount of sediment in a river is called its

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load

Front

The till deposited at the edge of a glacier forms a ridge called a(n)

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moraine

Front

Because of longshore drift,

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sediment moves down a beach with the current

Front

A channel along which water is continually flowing down a slope is called:

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a stream