chapter 10 test

The process by which soil and sediments are transferred from one location to another. Usually by wind, water, ice, and gravity.

• Weathering

• deposition

• Erosion

• deposits

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The process of breaking down rock into smaller pieces.

• weathering

• waves

• deposit sediments

• deposition

The solid particles that are moved from one place to another is called.

• sediments

• deposition

• rivers

• landforms

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Along sandy coastlines, wind can blow loose sand into piles, called _

• amplitude

• crest

• dunes

• sandbars

Part of the landscape that is likely to receive the overflow water and sediment from a flooded river.

• Sea level

• Process of deposition

• ocean

• floodplain

____ and ____ continuously change Earth's surface.

• weathering and landforms

• erosion and deposition

• weathering and erosion

• weathering and deposits

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What wears down coastal landforms and builds up new ones?

• wind

• currents

• shores

• waves

Earth's surface is made up of many different features called

• deposits

• National parks

• sediments

• Landforms

The movement of water that can move materials from the shore and can create a sandbar.

• trough

• dune

• longshore current

• crest

The size of waves depends on

• how much of the sea the wind blows over

• how long the wind blows

• speed of wind

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