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What is weathering?
Is the physical and chemical processes that change objects on Earth's surface over time.
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What is erosion?
This is the removal of weathered material from one location to another.
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What is deposition?
The laying down or settling of eroded material.
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What is mass wasting?
Is the downhill movement of a large mass of rocks or soil because of the pull of gravity.
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What is a glacier?
Is a large mass of ice that formed on land and moves slowly across Earth's surface.
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What is sediment?
The pieces of rock that come from weathering
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What is poorly rounded rocks?
Sediment that has a wide range of sizes.
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What is depositional environments?
When sediment is deposited in locations.
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What is vegetation?
This reduces the force of falling rain
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What is glacial erosion?
Glaciers erode Earth's surface as they slide over it.
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What is shape?
The way sediment is classified by.
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What is the rate of erosion?
This is what affects the weather, climate, topography, and type of rock.
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What is an alluvial fan?
An apron of sediment.
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What is a slump?
The material that moves slowly in a large mass
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What is U-shaped valleys?
Glaciers can form this when they move pass mountains.
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What is pollutants?
When this thing in the air reacts with rain and makes it more acidic.
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What is weathered material?
This is often transported away from its source rock.
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What is a landform created by deposition?
A sandbar is a example of this.
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What is the severity of mass wasting and the tendency for it to occur?
Human activities affect this.
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What is sand and gravel?
Outwash consists of these two well-sorted things.
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What is a rock's surface area?
The rate of weathering depends on this when it is exposed to the environment.
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What is the type of rock?
The rate of erosion depends on this.
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What is eskers and moraines?
Glaciers can create long, narrow deposits, which is this.
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What is erosion?
This tends to be more destructive when the mass wasting occurs on steep slopes.
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What is the mound of Earth?
Moraine is from the French word morena which means this.
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