Chapter 4 Test

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

• Erosion

• Deposition

• Mass Movement

• Sediment

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Any one of several processes by which gravity moves sediment downhill.

• Mass Movement

• Gravity

• Deposition

• Erosion

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The process in which sediment is laid down in new locations.

• Erosion

• Gravity

• Weathering

• Deposition

A region in which a layer of limestone close to the surface creates deep valleys, caverns and sinkholes.

• Groundwater

• Karst Topography

• Flood Plain

• Rill

A column-like form that grows upward from the floor of a cavern.

• Meander

• Rill

• Stalagmite

• Stalactite

A meander that has been cut off from a river.

• Runoff

• Oxbow Lake

• Meander

• Gully

A glacier that covers much of a continent or large island

• Glacier

• Tributary

• Continental Glacier

• Plucking

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

The process by which a glacier picks up rocks as it flows over the land

• Plucking

• Till

• Kettle

• Cirque

A long mound of till that is smoothed in the direction of the glacier's flow

• Drumlin

• Gully

• Kettle

• Till

This is an example of what forms when waves erode a layer of softer rock that underlines a layer of harder rock

• Sea Arch

• Sea Stack

• Beach

• Spit

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2