Erosion and Deposition

Water erosion begins when runoff from rainfall flows in a thin layer over the land in a kind of erosion called...

• mass erosion

• sheet erosion

• creep

• gullying

The process by which natural forces move weathered rock and soil from one place to another is called...

• soil conservation

• deposition

• abrasion

• erosion

Landslides, mudflows, slump, and creep are all examples of....

• mechanical weathering

• runoff

• mass movement

• soil formation

A river flowing across a wide floodplain begins to form looplike bends called....

• rills

• meanders

• outside curves

• deltas

The process in which rock fragments freeze to the bottom of a glacier and then are carried away when the glacier moves is called

• valley widening

• plucking

• brasion

• surging

Deltas are built up by.....

• leaching

• abrasion

• erosion

• deposition

The energy that produces ocean waves come from........

• the rise and fall of the tides

• rock falling into the ocean along the shore

• wind blowing across the water's surface

• rivers flowing into the ocean

The process by which wind removes surface materials is called....

• deflation

• inflation

• plucking

• abrasion

A wide sloping deposit of sediment formed where a stream leaves a mountain range is called a(n).....

• divide

• alluvial fan

• drainage basin

• slump

Which is the following is evidence that an area was once covered by a glacier?.....

• Loess deposits

• V-shaped valley

• alluvial fan

• U-Shaped valley