Unit 3 vocab
Across
- 6. Fine-grained sediments of quartz, feldspar, hornblende, mica, and clay deposited by the wind
- 7. The boundary between land and a body of water
- 9. The sudden movement of rock and soil down a slope
- 12. The process by which wind, water, ice, or gravity transport soil and sediment from one location to another
- 13. A large mass of ice that exists year-round and moves over land
- 14. An area of the shoreline that is made up of deposited sediment
Down
- 1. An area of the shoreline that is made up of deposited sediment
- 2. The water that is beneath earth’s surface
- 3. An area along a river that forms from sediments deposited when the river overflows its banks
- 4. A mass of material deposited in a triangular or fan shape at the mouth of a river or stream
- 5. The slow downhill movement of weathered rock material
- 8. flow The flow of a mass of mud or rock and soil mixed with a large amount of water
- 10. A mound of wind-deposited sand that moves as a result of the action of wind
- 11. The slow downhill movement of weathered rock material
- 15. The process in which material is laid down