Weathering: process where rock is dissolved, worn away, or broken down into smaller and smaller pieces, can be mechanical, chemical, and organic, water getting into cracks, freezing, and breaking the rocks apart, flood water pounding against a canyon wall and wearing it down, wind blowing rocks together forming smaller rocks, glaciers scraping rocks across the earth's surface, Erosion: agents include: moving water, wind, gravity, and ice, when rocks and sediments are picked up and moved to another place by ice, water, wind, or gravity, rain washing away soil from a hillside, a mudslide flowing down a steep hill, muddy water being carried away by a fast moving river, wind blowing sand from one location to another, Deposition: waves dropping sand on the beach, when erosion stops; the moving particles fall out of the water or wind and settle on a new surface, layers of sediment forming at the bottom of the ocean, landforms called delta that form where rivers flow into other bodies of water such as a sea, glaciers that drop rock, sand, and other debris forming landforms called moraines,

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