Geomorphology vocab terms

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Across
  1. 4. The process by which wind, water, ice, or gravity transports soil and sediment from one location to another
  2. 9. An area along a river that forms from sediments deposited when the river overflows it’s banks
  3. 11. The process in which material is laid down
  4. 14. the same thing of another weathering
  5. 15. The natural process by which atmospheric and environmental agents, such as wind, rain, and temperature changes, disintegrate and decompose rocks
  6. 16. A glacier the forms in a mountainous area
  7. 17. The mechanical breakdown of rocks into smaller pieces that is caused by natural processes and that does not change the chemical composition of rock material
  8. 19. The process of which a rock is reduced in size by the scraping action of other rocks driven by water, wind, and gravity.
Down
  1. 1. A large mass of ice that exists year-round and moves over land
  2. 2. The sudden movement of rock and soil down a slope
  3. 3. The flow of mud or rock and soil mixed with a large amount of water
  4. 5. The chemical reaction in which a material
  5. 6. Thick sheets of ice that may spread over large areas, like whole continents
  6. 7. The rock material carried and deposited by glaciers
  7. 8. The chemical breakdown and decomposition of rocks by natural processes in the environment.
  8. 10. Collective erm for several mechanical weathering processes induced by stresses created by the freezing of water to ice
  9. 12. A mass of material deposited in a triangular or fan shape at the mouth of a river or stream
  10. 13. precipitation Rain, sleet, or snow, that contains a high concentration of acids.
  11. 18. Fan-shaped mass of material deposited by a stream, when the slope of the land decreases sharply.