Earth Science - Chapter 6 Vocabulary Extra Credit

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