Earth Science Ch 4

A huge bowl-shaped depression dug out by a valley glacier

A lake formed when a sharp curve in a river is cut off from the rest of the river

The eroding action of windblown sand

Fan-shaped deposit of sediment at the mouth of a river

Land that borders a river and is covered by river water in flood time

A long pile of rock deposited parallel to the shore to prevent erosion

A large stream that carries water from the mountains to the sea

The piles of debris left behind when a glacier melts

A pillar-like structure of rock formed when the middle of a sea arch collapses

Region of land drained by a stream or river system

The deep cracks that develop on the surface of a glacier

Weathering that occurs when rainwater soaks into cracks in a rock and freezes

Large, deep grooves and scratches in rock, produced by glaciers

A vertical face of rock that forms when the sea erodes the land near it

A natural ridge formed along the edge of a river’s channel

The sudden descent of water saturated soil

A spire-like mass of dripstone on the floor of a cave

The sharp, steeple-shaped point of a mountain with three or more cirques

The natural processes that break down rocks

Erosion prevention that modifies a smooth slope into a series of level, stair-like steps

The source of a river

A glacier-carved valley that fills with seawater

A low hill formed when a glacier overruns a moraine