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Date
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Wind Erosion
Understanding Main Ideas
Answer the following questions in the spaces provided.
1. Describe the process by which wind causes erosion.
2. Describe how wind moves different sizes of sediment.
3. How does a sand dune form?
4. How are the sediments in loess deposits different from the sediments
in a sand dune?
Building Vocabulary
Fill in the blank to complete each statement.
5. The process by which wind removes surface materials is
6. Fine sediment deposited by wind is
.
.
7. A deposit of windblown sand is called a(n)
.
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