Weathering Vocabulary

3. an area of land that captures rainfall and funnels it to a lake/stream/wetland
7. a winding curve or bend of a river or road.
8. the process of scraping or wearing away.
10. an area of low-lying ground adjacent to a river, formed mainly of river sediments and subject to flooding
14. soil and rock particles are worn away
15. a glacial episode during a past geological period
17. a freshwater stream that flows into a larger stream or river
19. the wearing away of or changing the appearance or texture of (something) by long exposure to the elements
20. an ice mass that covers less than 50,000 km² of land area
21. formed when a glacier travels across and down a slope
22. a specific layer in soil that is different from the layers above and below it
25. formed by glacial erosion
26. forms when a meander is cut off from the rest of the river
29. rock debris

1. body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight
2. sediments, soil and rocks are added to a landform or land mass
4. a long, narrow, winding ridge composed of stratified sand. Deposited by a glacial meltwater stream
5. a chemical reaction happening between the minerals found in the rock and rainwater.
6. movement the movement of surface material caused by gravity
9. small hill composed of stratified sand
11. an area where precipitation collects and drains into a larger body of water
12. rain caused by industrial burning of coal and fossil fuels
13. accumulation of till deposited by a glacier
16. a form of mechanical weathering in which curved plates of rock are stripped from rock below.
18. top layer of soil
23. the reaction of a substance with oxygen
24. small hill consisting of compacted boulder clay molded by past glacial action
27. deposit of sand and gravel carried by running water from the melting ice of a glacier and laid down in stratified deposits
28. a shallow, sediment-filled body of water