Chapter 8 vocab
Across
- 2. Pile of angular rocks and sediment from a rockfall.
- 3. Crumbly, windblown deposit of silt and clay.
- 9. Flows parallel to the shoreline.
- 11. Removal of weathered material from one location to another.
- 13. Mound or ridge of unsorted sediment deposited by a glacier.
- 15. Grinding away of rock or other surfaces as particles carried by wind, water , or ice scrape against.
- 16. pile of windblown sand.
Down
- 1. downhill movement of a large mass of rocks or soil because of gravity .
- 4. Layered sediment deposited by streams of water that flowed from a melting glacier.
- 5. Rapid downhill movement of soil, loose rocks, and boulders.
- 6. Large mass of ice that formed on land and moves slowly across Earth’s surface
- 7. Laying down or settling of eroded material
- 8. Large deposit of sediment that forms where a stream enters a large body of water.
- 10. mixture of various sizes of sediment deposited by a glacier.
- 12. Ongoing event or series of related events
- 14. broad, C-shaped curve in a stream.