Types of Erosion Vocabulary

1. mass movement that is only able to be detected because of leaning fences, telephone poles and bent trees
4. the movement of sediments by wind, water or ice
6. watery clay soil slides down a mountain
10. when rock slides off a hill very suddenly
13. land area from which a river and its tributaries collect water
14. channel along which water is continually flowing down a slope
16. tiny groove made by flowing water
18. cone shaped deposit that rises from the floor of a cave
21. The wide spread deposit of sediments at the end of a river is called a(n)
22. a meander that has been cut off from the river

2. a large stream is called this
3. the water that moves across the surface after a rainfall
5. large channel in the soil that carries runoff (rills flow into this)
7. during an earthquake, soil and rock move quickly and dangerously down a mountain
8. a stream or river that flows into a larger river
9. the underground water that fills openings in soil and cracks in layers of rock
11. the cause of mass movements
12. type of landscape in which caves, deep valleys and sinkholes are common
15. deposit that hands from the roof of a cave
17. the dropping of sediments
19. the breaking down of rock into sediments
20. the flat, wide area along a river