Vocabulary Words

6. when acid rain reacts with rock--forming minerals such as feldspar to produce clay.
9. When CO2 dissolves in rain water and creates carbonic acid and weathers limestone to form caves and sink holes - Chemical Weathering
11. living things that cause chemical weathering by releasing a weak acid - Chemical Weathering
13. a chemical change in which a substance combines with oxygen, as when iron oxidizes, forming rust - Chemical Weathering
14. the tumbling of dry soil and rocks downhill.

1. Rain mixes with the soil to form mud which moves downhill.
2. low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water; the area behind a spit
3. a deposit of fine, wind-blown glacial sediment
4. Sediment that was deposited by a glacier.
5. finger-shaped deposit of sediment deposited at the mouth of a river.
7. When wind erosion piles up sand (deposition)
8. a type of sand bar created by long-shore drift which moves sand along the shore.
10. Water weathers rock by dissolving it - Chemical Weathering
12. Soil particles move slowly downhill