Erosion and Deposition Study Guide

· What is the material moved by erosion called?

· What is the process that moves sediment downhill?

· What is it called when raindrops erode tiny grooves in the soil?

· What kind of river is on a gentle slope and spreads out slowly wearing away a valley?

· A deposit that forms where a river leaves a mountain range is called what?

· The amount of sediment a river carries is its sediment _____.

· A part of a shore that sticks out into the ocean is a ______.

· What is it called when wind erodes sediment from the surface?

· What is a huge chunk of ice that moves over the land called?

· What is sediment dropped by a glacier called?

· What type of mass movement can result in gravestones and fence posts tilting at odd angles?

· What is the force that pulls rock and soil down slopes?

· What is a channel along which water is continually flowing down a slope called?

· What is water called that moves over the earth’s surface after it rains?

· When a river flows out of a steep, narrow mountain valley, an alluvial fan forms why?

· How do waves erode land?

· What formed Yosemite Valley?

· The till deposited at the edge of a glacier forms a ridge called?

· Landslides and slumps are forms of ______.

· After a rainfall, the water that moves over Earth’s surface is called______.

· The process by which erosion lays down sediment in new locations is called______.

· The process by which wind removes surface material is ____.

· A glacier forms in areas where move snow falls than _____.

Words to Know

· Morraine

· Loess

· Meander

· Spit

· Creep

· Oxbow

· Erosion

· Mass movement

· Sediment

· Deposition

· Valley glacier

Explain how glacier picks up rocks.

How does a sandy beach form, and where does the sand come from?