Wind, Ice, & Gravity Practice

The grinding and wearing down of rock by rock or sand particles.

• saltation

• deposition

• abrasion

• glacier

Small pieces of rock, dirt, or sand carried by wind or water and dropped in a new place.

• deposition

• erosion

• saltation

• glacier

Sediment is dropped in new locations.

• deposition

• erosion

• dune

• weathering

Sand piled up by wind is called ___.

• cave

• glacier

• dune

• groundwater

The movement of rocks and other materials downhill?

• deposition

• mass movement

• groundwater

• glacier

The MOST powerful force in erosion is _____?

• water

• ice

• wind

Large mass of ice that moves slowly over land.

• dune

• groundwater

• deposition

• glacier

Break down and move rock and other debris by wind.

• mass movement

• groundwater

• deposition

• wind erosion

Which landform is formed because of the erosion of groundwater?

• caves

• dune

• sediment

• mass movement

Movement of sand-sized particles in the direction the wind is blowing.

• groundwater

• glacier

• saltation

• cave