Loyd Weathering and Erosion Vocab

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Across
  1. 1. To break up or disintegrate
  2. 3. top layer of the Earth's surface where plants grow. Consists of weathered sediments and biological material
  3. 4. body of flowing fluid
  4. 7. The flat low lying plain that sometimes forms at the mouth of a river form deposits of sediments
  5. 8. Outer boundary of a shore
  6. 10. coast
  7. 13. The fall of rocks,soil,and other materials from a mountain, hill, or slope
  8. 15. mass of ice that moves slowly over land
  9. 16. solid material transported and deposited by water, ice, and wind
  10. 17. mound of sand created by the wind
Down
  1. 2. depression in the Earth between hills
  2. 5. Material such as earth,sand,or gravel, transported by a glacier
  3. 6. A valley created by water erosion. It is a larger scale of erosion (by water) than rills
  4. 7. To place or deliver sediment in a different area than it originated
  5. 9. the breaking down or dissolving or the Earth's surface rocks and minerals
  6. 11. A small valley formed by water erosion
  7. 12. small, loose grains of disintegrated rocks
  8. 14. Shape that looks like an upside down "U"
  9. 15. Large gorge made by the Colorado River in the U.S. state of Arizona
  10. 18. Act in which Earth is worn away,often by water,wind,or ice