Chaoter 9 Lesson 3 Flashcards

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Landslide

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This the rapid downhill movement of soil, loose rocks, and boulders

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Mass Wasting

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This is the down hill movement of alge made of rocks solid because of the pull of gravity

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Talus

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Pile angular rocks and sediment from a rockfall

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Glacier

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Large mass of ice that formed one and moves slowly across Earths surface

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Till

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This is a mixture of various sizes of sediments deposited by a glacier

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Moraine

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This is a mound or ridge of an unsorted sediment deposited by glaciers

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Out wash

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Layered sediment deposited by streams of star that a flow from a melting glacier

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