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| A major agent of erosion that shapes Earth's land surface and is moving |
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| The process by which wind removes surface materials |
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| One of processes by which glaciers erode the land(PLUCKING is the other process) |
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| Process in which rock fragments freeze to the bottom of the glacier and then are carried away when the glacier moves. |
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| Florida sits in this huge platform that is made of tiny sea animals |
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| A part of the shore that sticks out into the ocean |
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| A kind of glacier that forms when ice and snow built up in a mountain valley |
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| A stream or river that runs into another stream or river |
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| A ridge of till located at the farthest point reached by a glacier. |
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| This comes from wind blowing across the water's surface as it produces ocean waves |
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| This occurs when waves repeatedly hit the beach and some of the beach sediment moves down the beach with the current |
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| The time in the past when continental glaciers covered large parts of the Earth's surface |
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| A part of the shore that sticks out into the ocean |
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| A deposit of windblown sand formed when the wind meets an obstacle |
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| Particles of clay and silt eroded and deposited by the wind |
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| This force constantly pulls a glacier downhill |
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| The toll deposited at the edges of a glacier from a ridge. |
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| This is formed by rivers through erosion. They are a wide flat area covered by waters during floods |
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| This transfers energy to ocean waves as it moves across its surface |
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| A landform made of sediment that is deposited where a river flows into an ocean or lake |
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| A river that flows across a wide flood plain and begins to form looplike bends |
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| A river that flows from an area of harder rock to an area of softer rock, the softer rock may wear away eventually forming a drop |
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| A wide, sloping deposit of sediment formed where a stream leaves a mountain range |
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