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