6.5 Erosion Review

humus is made of

• dead plants and animals
• chickpeas
• weathered rocks
• living plants

How does longshore drift affect earth's surface?

• sediment moves down a beach
• cliffs break apart
• rivers carry sediment to the ocean
• waves wear down headlands

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Soil is made mostly of…

• rock broken into small pieces
• dead plants
• leaves
• rotted plants and animals

When wind slows down, which process occurs?

• deposition
• chemical weathering
• mechanical weathering
• erosion

Which type of mass movement occurs when a large, dry mass of dirt suddenly moves down a steep slope?

• landslide
• mudflow
• slump
• creep

When a river meets an ocean, its deposited sediments form a/an

• delta
• alluvial fan
• cave
• waterfall

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An alluvial fan forms where a…

• river flows out of the mountains onto a plain
• river meets a river
• river meets an ocean
• river gets cut off by deposition

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Sediment deposited by a glacier is called…

• till
• kettle
• loess
• slump

Rocks scraping against other rocks is called

• abrasion
• erosion
• loess
• plucking

The term for leaving sediment in an area

• deposition

• erosion

• weathering

• loess