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| a wide, sloping deposit of sediment formed where a stream leaves a mountain range. |
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| sediment deposited where a river flows into an ocan or a lake builds up a landform. |
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| the high ground between two drainage basins |
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| a land area from which a river and its tributaries collect their water |
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| a flat, long area of land along a river |
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| a looplike bend in the course of a river |
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| the major agent of the erosion that has shaped Earth's surface |
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| a meander that has been cut off from the river |
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| A stream that flows into a larger stream |
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| Valleys, waterfalls, floodplains, meanders, and oxbow lakes |
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| features formed by rivers as they erode land |
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| the process that gouges and scratches the bedrock as the glaciers move across the land. The wearing away of rock by a grinding action. |
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| a glacier that covers most of a continent or large island |
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| Any large mass of ice that moves slowly over land. |
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| times in the past when continental glaciers covered large parts of the Earth's surface |
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| a small depression that forms when a chunk of ice is found in a glacial till |
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| the ridge that forms when till is deposited at the edges of a glacier |
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| the process where a glacier flows over the land and picks up rocks |
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| the mixture of sediments that a glacier has eroded and deposits on the surface when it melts |
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| a long, narrow glacier that forms when snow and ice build up high in a mountain valley |
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| an area of wave-washed sediment along a coast. |
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| the process by which wind moves surface materials. (the main way that wind causes erosion) |
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| a process where waves hit a beach and some of the sediment moves down the beach with the current |
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| fine, wind deposited sediment |
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| a deposit of wind-blown sand |
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| a beach that projects like a finger into the water |
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| Sea Caves, Sea Arches, and Wave Cut Cliffs |
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| landforms created by wave erosion |
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| the major force of erosion along coasts that form when wind blows across the water's surface |
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| Wind erosion and deposition |
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| processes that may form sand dunes and loess deposits |
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| a process that occurs where the agents of erosion lay down sediment |
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| the process by which natural forces move weathered rock and soil from one place to another |
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| the force that moves rock and other materials downhill and causes waters potential energy to change to kinetic energy. |
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| the material moved by erosion |
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| Land slides, mud flow (mud slides), slump, and creep |
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| four types of mass movement |
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| an event that results from Earth processes and that can cause damage and endanger human life. |
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| Droughts, earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, volcanoes, wild fires |
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| Six examples of natural hazards |
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| Speeding up erosion and deposition |
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| the causes of Catastrophic events |
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| How can the location of human activities increase the risk of damage from natural hazards? |
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| People clear forests that help keep soil in place which causes more runoff. And humans settle in flood plains and floods cayuse damage to people's houses |
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| the amount of sediment a river carries |
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| water moving every direction downstream |
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| River's slope, volume of flow, and shape of streambed |
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| Three factors that affects how fast a river flows and how much sediment it can erode |
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