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100Weathering
What is the process of breaking down rock into smaller pieces
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100What is a loop or bend in a river
What is a loop or bend in a river
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100landslide
What is a slide of a large mass of dirt and rock down a mountain or cliff
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100canyon
What is a deep valley with steep sides often carved by a river
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100
oxbow lake
What is a crescent shaped lake
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200Erosion
What is the moving of weathered material
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200glacier
What is a large mass of moving ice
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200mudslide
What is a landslide that occurs when loose soil and rock are mixed with water
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200dune
What is a ridge of sand created by the wind
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200there is more erosion/ speeds up erosion
This is what happens to erosion when the slope of a hill is steep
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300deposition
What is the dropping of sediment into a new location
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300floodplain
What is a large area of flat land near a river that often floods and contains fertile soil
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300landform
What is a natural shape or feature of land
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300plateau
What is a large area of flat land elevated high above sea level
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300It slows erosion/ There is less erosion
What happens to erosion when there is lots of vegetation on a hill?
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400delta
What is a triangular shaped area of land formed by deposition at the mouth of a river
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400tributary
What is a stream or river that flows into a larger river
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400gravity
What is the force responsible for mass movement
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400valley
What is a long depression in the land that usually contains a river
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400Wind erosion
This is the type of erosion you would see most in the desert
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500Sediment
What is small pieces of weathered rock such as gravel, sand and pebbles
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500Colorado River
This is responsible for carving the Grand Canyon
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500creep
What is when soil or rock move downhill very, very slowly
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500Topographic Map
What is a map that shows land features on Earth
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500moraine
What is a long hill or sediment deposited by a glacier
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