Vocab--Erosion And Deposition, Part 1 Question Preview (ID: 62832)


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The process by which water, ice, wind, or gravity moves weathered particles of rock and soil.
a) erosion
b) mass movement
c) deposition
d) gravity

Small, solid pieces of material that come from rocks or the remains of organisms; earth materials deposited by erosion.
a) sediment
b) dirt
c) runoff
d) rill

Process in which sediment is laid down in new locations.
a) deposition
b) erosion
c) runoff
d) tributary

The attractive force between objects; the force that moves objects downhill.
a) gravity
b) pressure
c) runoff
d) groundwater

Any one of several processes by which gravity moves sediment downhill.
a) mass movement
b) erosion
c) deposition
d) gully

Water that flows over the ground surface rather than soaking into the ground.
a) runoff
b) sediment
c) groundwater
d) stream

A tiny groove in soil made by flowing water.
a) rill
b) gully
c) stream
d) v-shaped valley

A large channel in soil that carries runoff after a rainstorm.
a) gully
b) rill
c) tributary
d) river

A channel through which water is continually flowing downhill.
a) stream
b) tributary
c) flood plain
d) delta

A stream or river that flows into a large river.
a) tributary
b) delta
c) meander
d) oxbow lake

The flat, wide area of land along a river.
a) flood plain
b) delta
c) alluvial fan
d) stalactite

A looplike bend in the course of a river.
a) meander
b) alluvial fan
c) delta
d) tributary

A meander cut off from a river.
a) oxbow lake
b) alluvial fan
c) meander
d) groundwater

A landform made of sediment that is deposited where a river flows into an ocean or lake.
a) delta
b) alluvial fan
c) rill
d) gully

A wide, sloping deposit of sediment formed where a stream leaves a mountain range.
a) alluvial fan
b) delta
c) stream
d) floodplain

Water that fills the cracks and spaces in underground soil and rock layers.
a) groundwater
b) runoff
c) tributary
d) stalactite

A icicle-like structure that hangs from the ceiling of a cavern.
a) stalactite
b) stalagmite
c) karst topography
d) sinkhole

A column-like form that grows upward from the floor of a cavern.
a) stalagmite
b) stalactite
c) column
d) karst topography

A region in which a layer of limestone close to the surface creates deep valleys, caverns, and sinkholes.
a) karst topography
b) stalagmite
c) stalactite
d) kremm topography

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