Earth Science Unit 10 Vocabulary Words

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Across
  1. 3. a slow mass movement that occurs over time and slowly wears down the soil
  2. 6. movement of rocks and soil under the power of gravity
  3. 8. when a block of land slides downhill as a unit
  4. 9. Flat areas formed by stratified drifts
  5. 10. these glaciers form in mountains with year round snow peaks and are long and narrow
  6. 11. sharp ridges between adjoining cirques
  7. 15. these glaciers form over large areas as a blanket of thick ice
Down
  1. 1. mounds where wind has deposited sand
  2. 2. this occurs when heavy rains and mix with soil from a bare slope and causes mud to flow like a river
  3. 3. bowl shaped area on the sides of mountains from glaciers cut into the mountain wall
  4. 4. when heavy rains or earthquakes cause mass of rock and dirt give way and fall down a slope
  5. 5. when loose rock falls down a steep slope
  6. 7. the load of rock and sediment deposited when a glacier melts
  7. 10. when two hard things rub together causing one to erode
  8. 12. Moving Ice
  9. 13. where blocks of ice sat and melted forming a depression that are often filled with water
  10. 14. Sharp Pyramid shaped mountain peaks of 3 or more cirques