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| The process by which wind, water, ice or gravity transports soil, and sediment from one location to another |
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| the process by which rock material are broken down by the action of mechanical or chemical process and takes a long time |
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| a large of mass of moving ice |
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| the slow down hill movement of rock material |
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| when rocks fall down the side of a hill or mountain |
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| broken down material from rocks |
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| How are erosion and weathering similar? |
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*both effect our landscape
*both have the agents of water, wind, ice and gravity
*both wear things down |
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| How was Long Island Sound formed? |
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*Glaciers pushed sediment in front of them.
* the melting glacier filled in the Long Island Sound
*Waves and wind have shaped the sound since then. |
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| when sediment and rocks are dropped or left behind by streams |
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| cycle of freezing and thawing of water which causes rock to break. |
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| type of mechanical weathering where rocks are worn away by contact with other rocks. |
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