Erosion Water Mass Movement Vocabulary Miscelaneous

100

Weathering
What is the process of breaking down rock into smaller pieces

100

What is a loop or bend in a river
What is a loop or bend in a river

100

landslide
What is a slide of a large mass of dirt and rock down a mountain or cliff

100

canyon
What is a deep valley with steep sides often carved by a river

100

oxbow lake
What is a crescent shaped lake

200

Erosion
What is the moving of weathered material

200

glacier
What is a large mass of moving ice

200

mudslide
What is a landslide that occurs when loose soil and rock are mixed with water

200

dune
What is a ridge of sand created by the wind

200

there is more erosion/ speeds up erosion
This is what happens to erosion when the slope of a hill is steep

300

deposition
What is the dropping of sediment into a new location

300

floodplain
What is a large area of flat land near a river that often floods and contains fertile soil

300

landform
What is a natural shape or feature of land

300

plateau
What is a large area of flat land elevated high above sea level

300

It slows erosion/ There is less erosion
What happens to erosion when there is lots of vegetation on a hill?

400

delta
What is a triangular shaped area of land formed by deposition at the mouth of a river

400

tributary
What is a stream or river that flows into a larger river

400

gravity
What is the force responsible for mass movement

400

valley
What is a long depression in the land that usually contains a river

400

Wind erosion
This is the type of erosion you would see most in the desert

500

Sediment
What is small pieces of weathered rock such as gravel, sand and pebbles

500

Colorado River
This is responsible for carving the Grand Canyon

500

creep
What is when soil or rock move downhill very, very slowly

500

Topographic Map
What is a map that shows land features on Earth

500

moraine
What is a long hill or sediment deposited by a glacier

Landforms

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