Topic 5 Crossword

1. Dark colored organic material in soil.
5. Any large mass of ice that moves slowly over land.
6. The loose, weather material on earths surface in which plants grow.
10. Any of the several processes by which gravity moves sediment downhill
11. the sediments deposited directly by a glacier
13. the process by which a glacier picks up rocks as it flows over land.
14. A stream or river that flows into a larger river.
15. the movement of water and sediment down a beach caused by waves coming into shore at an angle.
19. The type of weathering in which rock is physically broken into small pieces.
20. Water that flows over the ground surface rather than soaking into the ground
22. The process by which water, ice, wind, or gravity move weathered particles of rock and soil.
23. A glacier that covers much of a continent or large island.
24. Small, solid pieces of material that come from rock or the remains organisms; earth materials deposited by erosion.

2. The principle states that the geological processes that operate today also operated in the past.
3. The process that breaks down rock through Chemical changes.
4. The flat, wide area of land along the river.
7. A channel through which water is continually flowing downhill.
8. A long, narrow glacier that forms when snow and ice build up in a mountain valley.
9. Process in which sediment is laid down in new locations.
12. A wide, sloping deposit of sediment formed where a stream leaves a mountain range.
15. A wind formed deposit made of fine particles of clay and silt.
16. A deposit of wind-blown sand.
17. Time in earths history during which glaciers covered large parts of the surface.
18. The process by which wind removes surface meterials.
21. Water that fills the cracks and spaces in underground soil and rock layers.
25. A landform made of sediment that is deposited where a river flows into an ocean or lake.