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Shaping the Earth
Test Review
Fall 2016
The wearing away of soil and rock
particles by waves, wind, running
water, or glaciers.
• Erosion
Isolated boulders left behind by a
glacier.
• Eratics
A formation created by rock debris
that is carried and deposited by a
glacier.
• Moraine
The dropping off of soil and rock
particles by waves, wind, running
water, or glaciers.
• Deposition
A large mass of ice or snow that
moves over land.
• Glacier
An unsorted collection of rock
materials that is deposited as a
glacier melts.
• Glacial Till
The process of growth or increase,
typically by the gradual increase of
additional layers of matter.
• Accretion
Gravel, sand, and clay carried from
glaciers by melting water and
streams.
• Outwash Plain
The end or outer margin of a
glacier
• Terminus
An unsorted collection of rock
materials that is deposited as a
glacier melts.
• Glacial Till
Isolated boulders left behind by a
glacier.
• Eratics
The dropping off of soil and rock
particles by waves, wind, running
water, or glaciers.
• Deposition
The wearing away of soil and rock
particles by waves, wind, running
water, or glaciers.
• Erosion
A large mass of ice or snow that
moves over land.
• Glacier
The end or outer margin of a
glacier
• Terminus
The process of growth or increase,
typically by the gradual increase of
additional layers of matter.
• Accretion
A formation created by rock debris
that is carried and deposited by a
glacier.
• Moraine
Gravel, sand, and clay carried from
glaciers by melting water and
streams.
• Outwash Plain
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