Chapter 5 Vocabulary Words - Jane Pennington

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Across
  1. 3. A broad, C-shaped curve in a stream.
  2. 4. The removal of weathered material from one location to another.
  3. 8. A current that flows parallel to the shoreline.
  4. 9. A pile of angular rocks and sediment from a rockfall.
  5. 12. The rapid downhill movement of soil, loose rocks, and boulders.
  6. 14. The layered sediment deposited by streams of water that flow from a melting glacier.
  7. 15. A mixture of various sizes of sediment deposited by a glacier.
Down
  1. 1. A pile of windblown sand.
  2. 2. The laying down or settling of eroded material.
  3. 5. The downhill movement of a large mass of rocks or soil because of the pull of gravity
  4. 6. The grinding away of a rock or other surfaces as particles carried by wind, water, or ice scraping against them.
  5. 7. A mound or ridge of unsorted sediment deposited by a glacier.
  6. 10. A crumbly, windblown deposit of silt and clay.
  7. 11. A large mass of ice that formes on land and moves slowly across Earth's surface.
  8. 13. A large deposit of sediment that forms where a stream enters a large body of water.