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| What is a confined body of water that flows either continuously or seasonally on the earth's surface or underground? |
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| What is vertical movement of a warm air mass due to a wedge of cold air moving in under it? |
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| What is a mound or wavelike ridge of loose sand heaped up by the wind? |
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| What is a sloping pile of weathered rock at the base of a cliff composed of rock pieces that have fallen from the cliff |
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| What is a mudflow that is caused by a volcano? |
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| What is it called when salt evaporates forcing joints in rocks to separate? |
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| What is a process by which thin slabs or flakes of rock are removed from larger rocks by mechanical and/or chemical weathering? |
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| What is a thin crust that forms in deserts when sand and silt have been blown away and only pebbles and cobble reman? |
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| What is an excavated desert basin caused by the wing caring away loose material such as sand and silt? |
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| What is the pushing of rocks upward in soil by repeated freezing and thawing of water in the soil? |
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| What is a mixture of earth, water, and rocks flowing down a slope as a semi-liquid? |
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| What is a downhill movement of large masses of soil or rocks under the influence of gravity? |
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| What is a downhill movement of soil? |
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| What is it called when soil forms into layers? |
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| How many soil horizons are there? |
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| True or False: Weathering reduces the orderliness of the materials in the original rock. |
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| What are the two types of mass wasting? |
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-Slow Mass Wasting
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| What are three types of debris slides? |
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-Earthflows
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| What does weathering change to rocks? |
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