Vocabulary Quiz

a mound or Ridge of unsorted sediment deposited by a glacier

• Moranine

• Meander

• Till

• Glacier

A mixture of various sizes of sediment that has been deposited by a glacier

• Till

• Talus

• Moraine

• Delta

the downhill movement of a large mass of rocks or soil due to gravity

• Mass Wasting

• Landslide

• Mudslide

• Outwash

the moving of weathered material, or sediment, from one location to another

• Erosion

• Weathering

• Deposition

• Landslide

a current that flows parallel to the shoreline

• Rip Tide

• Current

• Longshore Current

• Tide

a pile of angular rocks and sediment from a rockfall

• Dune

• Till

• Tallus

• Deposition

the laying down or settling of eroded material

• Weathering

• Erosion

• Deposition

• Sediment

a broad, C shaped curve in a stream

• Moranine

• Meander

• Talus

• Delta

a large mass of ice, formed by snow accumulation on land, that moves slowly across Earth's surface

• Glacier

• Iceberg

• Ice Cube

• Sleet

layered sediment deposited by streams of water that flow from a melting glacier

• Outwash

• Till

• Longshore Current

• Erosion