Soil + Erosion Vocab

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Across
  1. 4. In front of a glacier melt-water washes out dirt and creates a braided river
  2. 6. Rapid movement of rocks downhill
  3. 9. Rapid movement downhill of large portions of land.
  4. 11. Chunks of ice that break off a glacier into the ocean
  5. 13. Is weathered rock and organic material
  6. 16. The pile of till at the end of a glacier that has receded
  7. 18. When large amounts of rock or soil move because of gravity.
  8. 21. Created when a smaller glacier empties into a larger one.
  9. 25. When a river empties into a larger body of water it slows down dumping a lot of sediment usually in a triangular shape.
  10. 26. Process that moves soil and rock to reshape the land
  11. 27. A shallow body of water formed by retreating glaciers when ice chunks break off and melt under the sediment.
  12. 29. A pointed mountain formed by several glaciers
  13. 30. All the material that collects at the bottom of a steep hill.
  14. 32. Water picks up little pieces of rock as it moves across the surface.
  15. 34. Long smooth canoe shaped hills usually found in groups
Down
  1. 1. Fourth layer
  2. 2. Large sheets of ice that move slowly across land because of gravity. They are VERY heavy;
  3. 3. All glaciers form these. A valley shaped like the letter U.
  4. 5. Is a bowl-shaped valley on the side of a mountain, often with a glacier in it.
  5. 7. Slow movement of soil down a hill
  6. 8. Large rocks with a different composition than the surrounding land.
  7. 10. Sand piles up where the water slows down usually at river bends or shorelines
  8. 12. The dirt and rocks that are pushed in front of a glacier
  9. 14. Third layer
  10. 15. A thin spine of rock formed by 2 glaciers moving side by side.
  11. 17. The wind moves dust and rock pieces around
  12. 19. Piles of Sand that are steeper on one side than the other caused by wind slowing down.
  13. 20. Is the process of rock pieces being placed in a different location after erosion.
  14. 22. The most common glaciers. They are in mountain valleys. They cut through the mountains. They move down hill as gravity pulls the heavy ice.
  15. 23. A fan shaped deposit at the bottom of a hill deposited by water that doesn’t always flow
  16. 24. Movement of nutrients from the soil because of rain
  17. 28. First layer
  18. 31. Second layer
  19. 33. Organic material part of the soil.