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Erosion and Deposition
Vocabulary
16
Science
8th Grade
12/16/2008

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Energy
Definition
The ability to do work or cause change
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Kettle

Definition

A small depression that forms when a chuck of ice is left in glacial till

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Oxbow

Definition

Meander cut off from a river

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Spit
Definition
Beach formed by longshore drift that projects like a finger out into the water
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Tributary
Definition
Stream that flows into a larger stream
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Moraine
Definition
ridge formed by the till deposited at the edge of a glacier
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Deflation
Definition
wind erosion that removes surface materials
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loess
Definition
wind formed deposit made of fine particles of clay and silt
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Headland
Definition

part of the shore that sticks out into the ocean

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Erosion

Definition
destructive process in which water or wind loosens and carries away fragments of rocks
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Deposition
Definition
process by which sediment settles out of the water or wind that is carrying it
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Sediment
Definition
small solid pieces of material that come from rocks or organisms
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Load
Definition

amount of sediment that a river or stream carries

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Friction
Definition
force that one surface exerts on another when the two surfaces rub against each other
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Abrasion
Definition
grinding away of rock by other rock particles carried in waer,ice or wind
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Delta
Definition
landform made of sediment that is deposited where a river flows into and ocean or lake
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