Deposition Crossword
Across
- 2. Before sediments are deposited they must be ______
- 3. An agent of erosion and deposition that helps shape deserts.
- 6. The most common agent of erosion and also an agent of deposition.
- 11. A mount of sand in the desert.
- 12. A small hill of compacted clay left behind by glacial action.
- 14. The process of sediments being dropped and piled up.
- 16. _______ sediments are dropped first
- 18. A flowing body of water that meets the ocean, sometimes at a Delta.
Down
- 1. The process that happens before deposition.
- 4. A fan-shaped deposit of soil.
- 5. Tiny pieces of rock that are left after a larger rock is broken down.
- 7. A type of rock that forms from sediments.
- 8. An accumulation of debris that was carried along a glacier.
- 9. A long ridge of sand that forms along a bay.
- 10. A slowly moving block of ice that is an agent of deposition
- 13. Material that's been deposited by glaciers
- 15. to drop sediments
- 17. A spot where sand is deposited along coastlines.