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