| Definition | Term |
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| Water that fills the cracks and spaces in underground soil and rock layers | |
| Beaches, spits, sandbars, and barrier beaches are all landforms formed by what process? | |
| This forms when waves erode a layer of softer rock that is underneath a layer of harder rock | |
| Water that moves over Earth's surface | |
| This is formed when waves erode the base of a cliff so much that the rock above collapses | |
| Any large mass of ice that moves slowly over land | |
| A large groove, or channel, in the soil that carries runoff after a rainstorm | |
| The flat, wide area of land along a river | |
| A wide, sloping deposit of sediment formed where a stream leaves a mountain range | |
| The process by which wind removes surface materials | |
| Besides abrasion the other process in which glaciers erode the land | |
| The force that opposes the motion of one surface as it moves across another surface | |
| A deposit of wind-blown sand | |
| A stream or river that flows into a larger river | |
| The energy an object has due to its motion | |
| Type of mass movement that occurs when rock and soil slide quickly down a steep slope | |
| Where does the energy in waves come from? | |
| A meander that has been cut off from the river | |
| The material moved by erosion | |
| Process by which a glacier picks up rocks as it flows over the land | |
| Process in which sediment moves down the beach with the current as waves repeatedly hit the beach | |
| The process by which natural forces move weathered rock and soil from one place to another | |
| | Definition | Term |
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| A part of the shore that sticks out into the ocean | |
| Type of mass movement that is the rapid downhill movement of a mixture of water, rock, and soil | |
| Will a deep river have more or less friction than a shallow river? | |
| The ability to do work or cause change | |
| If a river's slope increases, the speed of the water _____. | |
| This is formed as wave action hollows out a cliff | |
| Waterfalls, flood plains, meanders, and oxbow lakes are all landforms formed by what process? | |
| The very slow downhill movement of rock and soil | |
| A small depression that forms when a chunk of ice is left in glacial till | |
| A glacier that covers much of a continent or large island | |
| Time in the past when continental glaciers covered large parts of Earth's surface | |
| A long, narrow glacier that forms when snow and ice build up high in a mountain valley | |
| An area of wave-washed sediment along a coast | |
| The mixture of sediments that a glacier deposits directly on the surface | |
| A tiny groove in the soil made by flowing water | |
| A landform made of sediment that is deposited where a river flows into an ocean or lake | |
| The type of mass movement where a mass of rock and soil suddenly slips down a slope | |
| A type of movement of water in which, rather than moving downstream, the water moves every which way | |
| A deposit that hangs like an icicle from the roof of a cave | |
| Besides abrasion, wind causes erosion by what process? | |
| The wearing away of rock by a grinding action | |
| A wind-formed deposit made of fine particles of clay and silt | |
| | Definition | Term |
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| As the amount of friction in a river increases, the speed of the water _____. | |
| Alluvial fans and deltas are landforms formed by what process? | |
| As the amount of runoff increases, the amount of erosion _____. | |
| Slow drippings built up in a cone-shaped structure on the floor of a cave | |
| A channel along which water is continually flowing down a slope | |
| Any one of several processes that move sediment downhill | |
| The force that moves rock and other materials downhill | |
| Type of energy that is stored and waiting to be used later | |
| Occurs where a river meets an area of rock that is very hard and erodes slowly | |
| Occurs where the agents of erosion deposit, or lay down, sediment | |
| A long ridge of sand parallel to the shore | |
| If the volume of water that a river carries increases, the speed of the water _____. | |
| Does groundwater cause erosion through mechanical or chemical weathering? | |
| Water moves _____ near the center of a river. | |
| A loop-like bend in the course of a river | |
| This forms when a sea arch collapses | |
| A ridge formed when till is deposited at the edges of a glacier | |
| This forms when storm waves pile up large amounts of sand above sea level forming a long, narrow island parallel to the shore | |
| Headlands, sea caves, wave-cut cliffs, sea arches, and sea stacks are all landforms that are formed by what process? | |
| A beach that projects like a finger out into the water | |
| Does water move fastest along the inside or the outside of a curve? | |
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