Topic 6 Vocab. - Definitions

The process by which water, ice, wind or gravity moves weathered particles of rock and soil

• Erosion

• Mechanical Weathering

• Chemical Weathering

• Deflation

The type of weathering in which rock is physically broken into smaller pieces

• Sediment

• Chemical Weathering

• Erosion

• Mechanical Weathering

The process that breaks down rock through chemical changes

• Mechanical Weathering

• Chemical Weathering

• Till

• Plucking

The loose weathered material on Earth’s surface in which plants can grow

• Sediment

• Deposition

• Soil

• Glacier

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

• Sediment

• Alluvial Fan

• Deposition

• Till

Process in which sediment is laid down in new locations

• Deposition

• Erosion

• Mechanical Weathering

• Chemical Weathering

A deposit of wind-blown sand

• Tributary

• Glacier

• Sand Dune

• Stream

The process by which wind removes surface materials

• Erosion

• Plucking

• Deflation

• Sediment

Water that flows over the ground surface rather than soaking into the ground

• Delta

• Groundwater

• Floodplain

• Runoff

A channel through which water is continually flowing downhill

• Alluvial Fan

• Stream

• Plucking

• Ice Age