Landforms Shaped by Water and Wind

What is the name of the stream when a stream moves slowly when it reaches flat land?

Coastal erosion is when waves crashing into shore erode loose sand, gravel, and rock along coastlines.

A longshore current is a current that flows perpendicular to the shoreline.

Water erosion can also form caves, stacks, and arches.

Fast-moving water deposits sediment on the inside curves of meanders.

A delta is a large deposit of sediment that forms where a stream enters a large body of water.

Much of the sand on most ocean beaches was originally deposited by ocean.

Longshore currents transport the sand along ocean coasts and deposit it where the currents have less energy.

What is the name of the top structure that are form within the caves?

What is the name of the bottom structure that are form within the caves?

To reduce erosion, people sometimes build structures such as retaining walls or groins.

Reducing or removing vegetation from the land surface is one of the most common ways to reduce surface erosion.

Constructive processes build up features on Earth’s surface.

A combination of constructive processes and destructive processes produces life.

Destructive processes build up features on Earth’s surface

Weathering is the atmospheric conditions and short-term changes in a particular place at a specific time.