weathering erosion deposition and land forms

Match the following

• alluvial fan

• loess

• rapid downhill movement of water rock and soil

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• physical weathering when water freezes and melts breaking surrounding rock

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• a wind-formed deposit made of fine particles of clay and silt

• uniformitarianism

• geologic principle that the same geologic processes that happen today happened similarly in the past

• frost wedging

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A ​ ​ (a)   is a wide flat area along a river.

​ (b)   is the dark colored organic matter in soil.

A (c)   is a deposit of wind blown sand

• floodplain
• humus
• sand dune

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Match the pictures to their vocabulary definition.

a

b

c

d

soil

physical weathering

mass movement

creep

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a measurement amount that is compared to another amount

• ground water

• deflation

• rate

• mudflow

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

• flood plain

• erosion

• humus

• ground water

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a process that breaks down rock through _________ change

• chemical

• physical

• tributary

• slump

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shapes the land by blowing away large amounts of sediments

• wind erosion

• water erosion

• chemical erosion

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​ (a)   is either the physical or chemical way in which rock is broken into small pieces. ​ (b)   is the process by which water, ice, wind or gravity moves weathered particles of rock and soil. ​ (c)   is the process where sediment is laid down into new locations.

• Weathering
• Erosion
• Deposition

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water that fills the cracks and spaces in underground soil and rock layers

• tributary

• river

• lake

• groundwater

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Match the following

• individual parts and pieces that make up a whole thing

• components

• rock and soil quickly slide down a steep hill

• slump

• accepted and proven truth that other conclusions might be based on

• principle

• stream or river that flows into a larger river

• land slide

• mass of rock and soil suddenly slip down a slope in a large mass

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