6th Grade Chapter 5 Test Review

The process by which a glacier picks up rocks as it moves over land.

• Plucking

• Deposition

• Deflation

The flat, wide area of land along a river

• Headland

• Waterfall

• Meander

• Flood Plain

The process by which natural forces move weathered rock and soil from one place to another

• Deposition

• Erosion

• Deflation

The mixture of sediments that a glacier directly deposits on a surface.

• Headland

• Deflation

• Till

This occurs when the agents of erosion deposit, or lay down, sediment

• Deposition

• Erosion

• Deflation

The process by which WIND removes surface materials

• Deposition

• Deflation

• Erosion

A part of the shore that sticks out into the ocean

• Sea Stack

• Sea Cave

• Headland

What is the slow, downhill mass movement of rock and soil caused by gravity?

• Creep

• glacier

• landslide

• runoff

What do you call the erosion of sediment by wind?

• Drifting

• Deposition

• plucking

• Deflation

An alluvial fan is a landform created by what?

• wind deposition

• water erosion

• glacial erosion

• water deposition