Across
- 2. Becoming incorporated into a liquid
- 6. Erosion that occurs when a rill channel widens and deepens
- 7. Structures built to anchor small vessels
- 10. The inside of a meander
- 14. Rivers erode in four ways: abrasion, attrition, hydraulic action, corrosion
- 15. Walls of concrete built to protect sand
- 16. Water freezes and thaws in rocks, often splitting them
- 17. Deprive beaches down the coast of sand
- 20. The long-term averages and variations in the weather for a particular area
- 22. Chemical reaction of oxygen with other substances
- 23. Acidic rain chemically breaks down materials
- 24. Windblown particles like sand wear against materials and wear them away
- 26. Rocks and minerals undergo changes in composition due to chemical reactions
- 27. Wind picks up and carries sediment away
Down
- 1. Process that physically breaks down the rocks
- 3. A meander that cuts itself off and turns into a lake before drying off
- 4. A bank that is heavily vertical
- 5. Curve formed when a stream erodes away
- 8. Removal and transport of weathered materials from one location to another
- 9. Channel that cuts through bedrock
- 11. Channel that cuts through sediment
- 12. Land area drained by a stream system
- 13. Triangular deposit that forms where a stream enters a large body of water
- 18. Where plants grow into bedrock forming cracks
- 19. Long ridges of sand
- 21. Chemical or mechanical process that breaks down and changes rock on earth's surface
- 25. A ridge of sediment deposited by overflowing water