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The water is moving the pieces of sediment, and erosion is moving sediments to a new place.

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This river is an agent of erosion because as it moves it is taking the sediment with it which is moving it to one place to another.
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This is an example of erosion because overtime the ocean waves will take pieces off the cliff, called sediments and wash the sediments into the water, moving them to another location.

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This can be weathering and erosion. But for this case it is erosion because it is taking the small rocks into the oceon.

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This is a landslide which is erosion because when the land slide happens it brings sediment down with it and brings takes and somewhere else. / Stella

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shows gravity carrying the sediments onto the ground

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As you can see this rock is spinning so it might be because of the wind takeing the rock!

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moves sedment

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This is an example of a mudslide which is erosion because it carries sediments from one place to another

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This is erosion, because the waves took and swept away the sediments in the road.

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it moved

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This is erosion because gravity is pulling the rocks down.

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water moving sediments

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it like a rock and it move to a new location

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this is erosion

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My hand is moving

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This is erosion as the sand is being taken away by water.

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The waves took the sand away.

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Real Ocean Waves Effect Animated Background Videos,Sea Ocean Video

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its lighting up at different times making it look like the light is moving

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Rocks are being eroded and sediments are being carried away down the waterfall.

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I chose this because the leaves look like sediments and there in the water is moving them kinda

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I chose this gif because it shows the dirt and trees moving down the hill and a landslide is happening

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I chose this because the river is moving with little pieces of rock with them. Erosion

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the water eroded the sediments in the water

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I choose this one because the water may be moving tiny rocks that we can't see but it may be moving the tiny rocks

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the river is moving all the sediments

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erosion takes c;

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I chose this because overtime the water wears done the rocks:)

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River moving sediments

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the rock is like WEEE

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These show the  ground changing over time.

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i chose this one because it shows sediment moving like erosion.

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Cliff erosion threatens to push California homes into sea

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This is Erosion because of how the movement of the water is making the soil/sediments fall into the water which then would move into a different area.

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i chose this because it's a mudslide. a mudslide is erosion because it takes all types of things with it like trees, rocks, etc.

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The water carried the rocks and sediments to a new place.

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This could be an example for erosion.🤔🤯

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Erosion is the geological process in which earthen materials are worn away and transported by natural forces such as wind or water. A similar process, weathering, breaks down or dissolves rock, but does not involve movement. Erosion is the opposite of deposition, the geological process in which earthen materials are deposited, or built up, on a landform. Most erosion is performed by liquid water, wind, or ice (usually in the form of a glacier). If the wind is dusty, or water or glacial ice is muddy, erosion is taking place. The brown color indicates that bits of rock and soil are suspended in the fluid (air or water) and being transported from one place to another. This transported material is called sediment.

Physical erosion describes the process of rocks changing their physical properties without changing their basic chemical composition. Physical erosion often causes rocks to get smaller or smoother. Rocks eroded through physical erosion often form clastic sediments. Clastic sediments are composed of fragments of older rocks that have been transported from their place of origin. Landslides and other forms of mass wasting are associated with physical weathering. These processes cause rocks to dislodge from hillsides and crumble as they tumble down a slope.

Plant growth can also contribute to physical erosion in a process called bioerosion. Plants break up earthen materials as they take root, and can create cracks and crevices in rocks they encounter. Ice and liquid water can also contribute to physical erosion as their movement forces rocks to crash together or crack apart. Some rocks shatter and crumble, while others are worn away. River rocks are often much smoother than rocks found elsewhere, for instance, because they have been eroded by constant contact with other river rocks.

Erosion by Water

Liquid water is the major agent of erosion on Earth. Rain, rivers, floods, lakes, and the ocean carry away bits of soil and sand and slowly wash away the sediment. Rainfall produces four types of soil erosion: splash erosion, sheet erosion, rill erosion, and gully erosion.

Splash erosion describes the impact of a falling raindrop, which can scatter tiny soil particles as far as 0.6 meters (two feet).

Sheet erosion describes erosion caused by runoff.

Rill erosion describes erosion that takes place as runoff develops into discrete streams (rills).

Finally, gully erosion is the stage in which soil particles are transported through large channels.

The Fish River Canyon, in southern Namibia, is the largest canyon in Africa and a product of valley erosion. Over millions of years, the Fish River wore away at the hard gneiss bedrock, carving a canyon about 160 kilometers (99 miles) in length, 27 kilometers (17 miles) wide, and 550 meters (1,084 feet) deep.

The battering force of ocean waves also erodes seaside cliffs. The action of erosion can create an array of coastal landscape features. For example, erosion can bore holes that form caves. When water breaks through the back of the cave, it can create an arch. The continual pounding of waves can cause the top of the arch to fall, leaving nothing but rock columns called sea stacks. The seven remaining sea stacks of Twelve Apostles Marine National Park, in Victoria, Australia, are among the most dramatic and well-known of these features of coastal erosion.

Erosion by Wind

Erosion by Ice

Ice, usually in the form of glaciers, can erode the earth and create dramatic landforms. In frigid areas and on some mountaintops, glaciers move slowly downhill and across the land. As they move, they transport everything in their path, from tiny grains of sand to huge boulders. Rocks carried by glaciers scrape against the ground below, eroding both the ground and the rocks. In this way, glaciers grind up rocks and scrape away the soil. Moving glaciers gouge out basins and form steep-sided mountain valleys. Eroded sediment called moraine is often visible on and around glaciers.

Several times in Earth's history, vast glaciers covered parts of the Northern Hemisphere. These glacial periods are known as ice ages. Ice Age glaciers carved much of the modern northern North American and European landscape. Ice Age glaciers scoured the ground to form what are now the Finger Lakes in the U.S. state of New York, for example. They carved fjords, deep inlets along the coast of Scandinavia. The snout of a glacier eroded Cape Cod Bay, Massachusetts, U.S., and formed the recognizable fishhook shape of Cape Cod itself.

Today, in places such as Greenland and Antarctica, glaciers continue to erode the earth. Ice sheets there can be more than a mile thick, making it difficult for scientists to measure the speed and patterns of erosion. However, ice sheets do erode remarkably quickly-as much as half a centimeter (0.2 inch) every year.

Other Forces of Erosion

Factors Impacting Erosion

Some of the natural factors impacting erosion in a landscape include climate, topography, vegetation, and tectonic activity. Climate is perhaps the most influential force impacting the effect of erosion on a landscape. Climate includes precipitation and wind. Climate also includes seasonal variability, which influences the likelihood of weathered sediments being transported during a weather event such as a snowmelt, breeze, or hurricane. Topography, the shape of surface features of an area, can contribute to how erosion impacts that area. The earthen floodplains of river valleys are much more prone to erosion than rocky flood channels, which may take centuries to erode. Soft rock like chalk will erode more quickly than hard rocks like granite.

Vegetation can slow the impact of erosion. Plant roots adhere to soil and rock particles, preventing their transport during rainfall or wind events. Trees, shrubs, and other plants can even limit the impact of mass wasting events such as landslides and other natural hazards such as hurricanes. Deserts, which generally lack thick vegetation, are often the most eroded landscapes on the planet.

Finally, tectonic activity shapes the landscape itself, and thus influences the way erosion impacts an area. Tectonic uplift, for example, causes one part of the landscape to rise higher than others. In a span of about 5 million years, tectonic uplift caused the Colorado River to cut deeper and deeper into the Colorado Plateau, land in what is now the U.S. state of Arizona. It eventually formed the Grand Canyon, which is more than 1,600 meters (one mile) deep and as much as 29 kilometers (18 miles) wide in some places.

Erosion and People
Deposition, Soils, and Sediments
Eroded sediments have profoundly influenced the development of civilizations around the world. Agricultural development is often reliant on the nutrient-rich soils created by the accumulation of eroded earth. When the velocity of wind or water slows, eroded sediment is deposited in a new location. The sediment builds up in a process called sedimentation and creates fertile land. River deltas are made almost entirely of sediment that has eroded from the banks and bed of a river.

The rich delta soils of the San Joaquin and Sacramento rivers in northern California, for example, have created one of the most agriculturally productive areas in the world. Loess is an agriculturally rich sediment made almost entirely of wind-blown, eroded sediment.

The Yellow River in central China gets its name from the yellow loess blown into and suspended in its water. The fertile lands around the Yellow River have been among China's most productive for thousands of years.

Erosion is a natural process, but human activity can make it happen more quickly. Human activity altering the vegetation of an area is perhaps the biggest human factor contributing to erosion. Trees and plants hold soil in place. When people cut down forests or plow up grasses for agriculture and development, the soil is more vulnerable to washing or blowing away. Landslides become more common. Water rushes over exposed soil rather than soaking into it, causing flooding.

The rise in temperature is also quickly melting glaciers. The slower, more massive form of glacial erosion is being supplanted by the cumulative impact of rill, gully, and valley erosion. In areas downstream from glacial snouts, rapidly melting glaciers are contributing to sea level rise. The rising sea erodes beaches more quickly.

Erosion control is the process of reducing erosion by wind and water. Farmers and engineers must regularly practice erosion control. Sometimes, engineers simply install structures to physically prevent soil from being transported. Gabions are huge wireframes that hold boulders in place, for instance. Gabions are often placed near cliffs. These cliffs, often near the coast, have homes, businesses, and highways near them. When erosion by water or wind threatens to tumble the boulders toward buildings and cars, gabions protect landowners and drivers by holding the rocks in place.

Living shorelines are another form of erosion control in wetland areas. Living shorelines are constructed by placing native plants, stone, sand, and even living organisms such as oysters along wetland coasts. These plants help anchor the soil to the area, preventing erosion. By securing the land, living shorelines establish a natural habitat. They protect coastlines from powerful storm surges as well as erosion.

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Erosion is the geological process in which earthen materials are worn away and transported by natural forces such as wind or water.

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water moved the sand/dirt causing it to make a little water puddle that will soon form a lake or river.

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rivers moving sediments

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this a mudslide, an effect of erosion.

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Mudslide is erosion because it takes trees and all kinds of natures belongings

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Delta is a river depositing into an ocean

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The water is moving all the sediment to a new location

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this lamborghini is moving the sediements on the floor.

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A mud slide

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this shows erosion because it shows water taking sediments to a different place

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The reason i pick this one as because be river might be moving rocks

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I chose this to show a fast moving river to take the sediments to a new location

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I chose this because the landslide is taking the van and the ground, which is erosion

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The River is weathering and carrying the rocks to a new location ( Erosion )

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just pretend that kid is mud

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This is a landslide which represents erosion

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this is an example of water carving out the rocks and bringing sediments to a new location. 

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i put this to show the water taking sediments from the beach.

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i chose this because rock get took/eroded and this shows a guy getting taken away

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The water is taking all the rocks and wet sand and taking it and thats a exmaple of erosion. This is Aarifa

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This shows the waves hitting and taking the rocks with it.

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this shows the baby taking the pas-afire away from the boy

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This pic because it shows me erosion

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this shows boats moving in water and represents rocks moving by water pushing it

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The water is carrying away the sediments to a new location

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The rocks in the landslide are being eroded to a new place.

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this dog is geting wind blown in to is face this one is Randall's

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I couldn't find a gif so here this is, but the rock is getting moved by the wind

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I couldn't find a gif so here this is, but the rock is getting moved by the wind

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The waves kept hitting the cliff and breaking it

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you can see the water (aka erosion) taking the dirt that falls

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This is erosion because the waves are hitting the side of the rock/dirt

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wind has changed it.

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This is erosion because the rock is being took away

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This is erosion because the rock is being took away

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This is beacuse you can see the water hitting the cliff

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This is erosion because the waves are moving sediment away.

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this is erosion because it is taking the sediment that was weathered down

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This is a GIF that shows how the water has dissensgrated part of the rock