Chapter 6 Vocab

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