Topic 6 Earths Surface Systems Vocabualry

A principle that geologic processes that occurred in the past can be explained by geologic processes today

• glacier

• longshore drift

• uniformitarianism

• stream

Processes by which rock, sand, and soil are broken down and carried away (i.e. weathering, glaciation)

• sand dune

• chemical weathering

• erosion

• wave erosion

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

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

• mechanical weathering

• chemical weathering

• longshore drift

• delta

The process that breaks down rock through chemical changes

• glacial erosion

• ice age

• flood plain

• chemical weathering

The loose, weathered material on Earth's surface in which plants can grow.

• uniformitarianism

• delta

• valley glacier

• soil

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

small, solid pieces of material that come from rocks or living things

• continential glacier

• deflation

• deposition

• sediment

Process in which sediment is laid down in new locations.

• deposition

• till

• glacial erosion

• erosion

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

any one of several processes by which gravity moves sediment down hill

• tributary

• sediment

• mass movement

• valley glacier

when wind removes surface materials

• erosion

• deflation

• till

• deposition

A hill of sand, made and shaped by wind

• sand dune

• flood plain

• mass movement

• soil

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2