Landforms/Weathering/Erosin Vocabulary
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- moraine
- a ridge of till left behind a retreating glacier
- archipelgo
- a sea with many islands
- elevation
- the height above sea level of a point on earth's surface
- lagoon
- a body of shallow water usally connected to a larger lake or the sea
- meander
- a loop in a river
- isthmus
- a peice of land connecting two large pecies of land
- erosion
- the process by which the product of weathering are moved from one place to another
- atoll
- a ring shaped coral island and its reef, nearly or completely enclosing a lagoon
- drainage basin
- the land area from which a river and its tributaries collect their water
- contienental divide
- the great ridge of the rocky mountains summit seprating west streams from east streams
- lake
- a sizable inland body of water
- delta
- a triangular shaped slit deposited at the mouth of the river
- cape
- a point of land extending into a sea or lake
- alluvial fan
- a fan shaped deposit of sediments formed at the point where a river leaves the mountains and runs out into the plain
- fjord
- a long narrow arm of the sea running betweehigh, rock, cliffs
- catract
- a waterfall of great size
- levee
- in nature, a ridge-like deposit along the sides of a river
- flood plain
- a flat area that is found on both sides of a streams or river, formed by sediments deposited during floods
- bay
- a body of water partly or almost entirely enclosed by land
- glacier
- a large mass of moving ice and snow