A place at the mouth of a river where sediments are deposited.

Scale

To measure distance

White, light weight, volcanic rock, from more glassy magma.

formed on ocean floor, black, heavy, from less glassy magma.

A scientist who studies the remains of life.

Something that's no longer alive.

A rock structure built perpendicular to the shore.  

Dredging

Removes land from water

Erosion

The gradual wearing down of land surface material, especially rocks.

Water that makes energy

A result of waves hitting the beach at an angle.

Flood Plain

Flat land bordering a river made up of sediments.

Piles of rocks

When sediments are left or depostited else where.

Being exposed to open air

Forms that the land is shaped liked.

the level that the sea is at

Constructive

Force of sediment depostition

The way the continents move.

Force of waves eroding sediments.

Earth Processes

Jetty, longshore current, breakwater, seawall

Ecologist

A scientst who studies the relationship between living things and their enviorments.

A scientist who studies the earth.

A representaion of something that is usally smaller than the real thing

Molten liquid beneath the earth's crust

Molten liquid above the earth's crust

Dormant

It means that a volcano is "asleep"

A black rock that is under ground that is used for making electricity by burning it.

When a volcano blows up it erupts

A wet land that is often treeless