Vocab Words

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Across
  1. 3. grinding away of rock or other surfaces as particles carried by wind, water, or ice scrape against them
  2. 4. layered sediment deposited by streams of water that flowed from a melting glacier
  3. 7. rapid downhill movement of soil, loose rocks, and boulders
  4. 11. downhill movement of a large mass of rocks or soil because of gravity
  5. 15. broad, C-shaped curve in a stream
Down
  1. 1. removal of weathered material from one location to another
  2. 2. mixture of various sizes of sediment deposited by a glacier
  3. 5. pile of windblown sand
  4. 6. laying down or settling of eroded materia
  5. 7. crumbly, windblown deposit of silt and clay
  6. 8. current flows parallel to the shoreline
  7. 9. large deposit of sediment that forms where a stream enters a large body of water
  8. 10. pile of angular rocks and sediment from a rockfall
  9. 12. large mass of ice that formed on land and moves slowly across Earth’s surface
  10. 13. mound or ridge of unsorted sediment deposited by a glacier
  11. 14. ongoing event or series of related events