Vocabulary!!!
- Shoreline - the boundary between land and a body of water
- Beach - an area of the shoreline that is made up of deposited sediment
- Saltation - the movement of sand or other sediments by short jumps and bounces that is caused by wind or water
- Deflation - a form of wind erosion in which fine, dry soil particles are blown away
- Abrasion - the grinding and wearing away of rock surfaces through the mechanical action of other rock or sand particles
- Loess - fine-grained sediments of quartz, feldspar, hornblende, mica, and clay deposited by the wind
- Dune - a mound of wind-deposited sand that moves as a result of the action of wind
- Glacier - a large mass of moving ice
- Glacial drift - the rock material carried and deposited by glaciers
- Till - unsorted rock material that is deposited directly by a melting
- Stratified drift - a glacial deposit that has been sorted and layered by the action of streams or melt water
- Mass movement - the movement of a large mass of sediment or a section of land down a slope
- Rock fall - the rapid mass movement of rock down a steep slope or cliff
- Landslide - the sudden movement of rock and soil down a slope
- Mudflow - the flow of a mass of mud or rock and soil mixed with a large amount of water
- Creep - the slow downhill movement of weathered rock material