ELR - Chapter 1 - The Shape of the Land
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- jetty
- a structure built to stop the movement of sand
- delta
- a flat plain formed by sediments when a river empties into an ocean
- glacier
- a huge mass of moving ice that forms over land
- moraine
- rock material carried by a glacier
- headland
- a natural piece of land that extends out into the water
- bay
- a body of water that is part;y enclosed by land but has an opening called a mouth connecting to the ocean
- terminal moraine
- a glacier's largest deposit
- valley glaciers
- form high in mountain ranges
- continental glaciers
- found only in Greenland and Antarctica
- glacier grooves
- grooves left in a rock by a glacier
- erractics
- large boulders dropped by a glacier
- sand dune
- piles of sand deposited in one place
- erosion
- the process by which broken down rock material is carried from one place to another by moving water, wind, or ice.
- butte
- a narrow topped hill with very steep, clifflike sides
- largest river in US
- Mississippi
- Name three of the Mississippi's tributaries
- Missouri, Arkansas, Ohio
- weathering
- the process by which rock is broken into smaller pieces.
- river system
- a river and its waterways
- sediments
- the materials that are carried by moving water