Erosion Vocab

The process by which wind, water, gravity, and glaciers move weathered rock or soil

• erosion
• weathering
• deposition

Small, solid pieces of material that come from rocks or organisms

• rocks
• runoff
• sediment
• sand

The process in which sediment is laid down in a new location

• erosion
• deposition
• weathering

A force that moves rock and other materials downhill

• mass movement
• runoff
• loess
• gravity

Any one of several processes by which gravity moves downhill

• gravity
• mass movement
• runoff
• sand dune

A large mass of move ice and snow on land

• runoff 
• glacier
• sand dune
• erosion

A deposit of wind blown sand

• sand dune
• loess
• deflation
• abrasion

Sediments deposited by glaciers

• sediment

• till

• ice

• rocks

A shore of an ocean covered by sand, gravel or larger rock fragments

• beach

• sand dune

• ocean

• sediments

The process by which a glacier picks up rocks as it flows over the land; an example of weathering and erosion

• plucking

• meander

• deposition

• till