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| Moving _________ is the major agent of the erosion that has shaped Earth's surface |
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| A _________ is a stream that flows into a larger stream |
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| A _____________ is a land area from which a river and its tributaries collect their water. |
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| A _________ is the high ground between two drainage basins. |
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| Five features formed by rivers as they erode land are _______________, waterfalls, floodplains, meanders, and oxbow lakes. |
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| the flat, wide area of land along a river is a ____________. |
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| the flat, wide area of land along a river is a ____________. |
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| the flat, wide area of land along a river is a ____________. |
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| a __________ is alooplike bend in the course of a river |
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| a(n) ______________ is a meander that has been cut off from the river |
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| a(n) ______________ is a meander that has been cut off from the river |
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| a(n) ______________ is a wide, sloping deposit of sediment formed where a stream leaves a mountain range |
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| Sediment deposited where a river flows into an ocean or lake builds up a landform called a _____________ |
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| a __________ is any large mass of ice that moves slowly over land |
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| A __________ is a long, narrow glacier that forms when snow and ice build up high in a mountain valley. |
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| A ___________________ is a glacier that covers much of a continent or large island |
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| times in the past when continental glaciers covered large parts of the earth's surface are called _________. |
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| the two processes by which glaciers erode the land are _________ and ______________. |
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| as a glacier flows over the land, it picks up rocks in a process called ___________. |
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| the process called ______________ gouges and scratches the bedrock as the glaciers move across the land. |
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| when a glacier melts, it deposits the sediment it eroded. the mixture of sediments that a glacier deposits directly on the surface is called _____. |
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| the till deposited at the edges of a glacier forms a ridge called a _________. |
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| a __________ is a small depression that forms when a chunk of ice is found in glacial till. |
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