W.E.D Vocabulary

4. living things that cause chemical weathering by releasing a weak acid - Chemical Weathering
5. The tumbling of dry soil and rocks downhill.
6. Soil particles move slowly downhill
9. When CO2 dissolves in rain water and creates carbonic acid and weathers limestone to form caves and sink holes - Chemical Weathering
10. When acid rain reacts with rock--forming minerals such as feldspar to produce clay.
11. Water weathers rock by dissolving it - Chemical Weathering
14. Sediment that was deposited by a glacier.
15. A type of sand bar created by long-shore drift which moves sand along the shore.

1. Rain mixes with the soil to form mud which moves downhill.
2. rain, sleet, or snow that contains a high concentration of acids - Chemical Weathering
3. The breakdown of rocks
7. A deposit of fine, wind-blown glacial sediment
8. low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water; the area behind a spit
12. a chemical change in which a substance combines with oxygen, as when iron oxidizes, forming rust - Chemical Weathering
13. Finger-shaped deposit of sediment deposited at the mouth of a river.