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#1 The amount of sediment in a river is called its What is load?
#2 After a rainfall, the water that moves over the Earth's surface is called What is runoff?
#3 What type of mass movement results in gravestones and telephone tilting at odd angles? What is creep?
#4 The material moved by erosion is called What is sediment?
#5 What is the force that pulls rock and soil down slope? What is gravity?
#1 The process by which erosion lays down sediment in a new location is called What is deposition?
#2 The Missouri River is a tributary because What is flows into the Mississippi River?
#3 The process by which natural forces move weathered rock from place to place is called What is erosion?
#4 Longshore drift cause sediments to What is move down the beach with the current?
#5 What type of rock is most likely to form caves? What is limestone?
#1 A glacier forms in an area where more snow falls than What is melts?
#2 What type of glacier covers much of the island of greenland? What is a continental glacier?
#3 What type of erosion formed the Great Lakes of North America? What is glacial erosion?
#4 A meander that is cut off from the river by deposition of sediment What is a oxbow lake?
#5 When it rains for an extended period of time in the deserts these may occur What are Mudslides?
#1 The till deposited at the edge of a glacier forms a ridge called a What is a Moraine?
#2 The process by which wind removes surface material is What is deflation?
#3 The energy of ocean waves comes from the energy of the What is wind?
#4 A channel along which a water is continually flowing down a slope is What is a stream?
#5 Meandering rivers are most likely seen in what region (mountains or plains) What are plains regions?
#1 The flat, wide area of the land along the banks of the river are called What are flood plains?
#2 An alluvial fan forms because What is the river slows way down?
#3 Landslides and slumps are forms of What is Mass Movements?
#4 Waves erode the land through impact and What is abrasion?
#5 This type of topography produces caves, cavens and sinkholes What is Karst Topography?
Final Question
This is how a glacier picks up rocks What is plucking?