W.E.D. vocab words (No spaces or capital letters in answers)
Across
- 2. When acid rain reacts with rock--forming minerals such as feldspar to produce clay
- 4. Finger-shaped deposit of sediment deposited at the mouth of a river
- 6. These protect the Georgia coast by absorbing the energy of waves and storms
- 7. where deposition takes place
- 9. Rain mixes with the soil to form mud which moves downhill
- 14. rain, sleet, or snow that contains a high concentration of acids - Chemical Weathering
- 15. the tumbling of dry soil and rocks downhill
- 16. Soil particles move slowly downhill
- 17. a wide, downhill deposit of sediment formed where a stream leaves a mountain
- 18. low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water; the area behind a spit
- 19. where erosion takes place
- 20. a chemical change in which a substance combines with oxygen, as when iron oxidizes, forming rust - Chemical Weathering
Down
- 1. Living things that cause chemical weathering by releasing a weak acid - Chemical Weathering
- 3. A deposit of fine, wind-blown glacial sediment
- 5. Breaks up rocks from repeated freezing and thawing of ice in cracks in rocks - Mechanical Weathering
- 8. Water weathers rock by dissolving it - Chemical Weathering
- 10. when CO2 dissolves in rain water and creates carbonic acid and weathers limestone to form caves and sink holes-Chemical Weathering
- 11. Sediment that was deposited by a glacier
- 12. When wind erosion piles up sand (deposition)
- 13. A type of sand bar created by long-shore drift which moves sand along the shore