Earth's Processes and Natural Resources VOCABULARY

A type of weathering that occurs when water soaks into a material, freezes, expands, and causes the material to split or break apart.

• environment

• recycle

• permeable

• ice wedging

The particles of soil or rock that have been eroded and deposited.

• nonrenewable

• ice wedging

• sediment

• glacier

The slow process that breaks materials into smaller pieces.

• conservation

• recycle

• weathering

• coal

The dropping off of eroded soil and bits of rock.

• weathering

• conservation

• recycle

• deposition

The movement of weathered material from one place to another.

• disposal

• erosion

• glacier

• deposition

A large sheet of ice that moves slowly across the land.

• sediment

• erosion

• soil erosion

• glacier

The process by which soil is worn away by wind or rain.

• conservation

• weathering

• soil erosion

• erosion

a black or brown rock that is found in the earth and burned as fuel

• weathering

• natural gas

• coal

• nonrenewable

a mixture of gases found below Earth's surface that is used as fuel

• aquifer

• sediment

• impermeable

• natural gas

something that people use from nature

• coal

• renewable

• glacier

• natural resource