Understanding Deposition

Understanding Deposition

Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your ability. This worksheet will test your knowledge of deposition and the landforms it creates.

1. What is the process called when eroded materials are dropped or settled in a new location?

2. Which of these landforms is typically created by deposition?

3. When a river slows down as it enters a larger body of water, it drops its sediment, forming a landform called a  .

4. Wind can pick up sand and dust and then drop it, creating sand   in deserts.

5. Glaciers deposit a mixture of rocks and sediment called   as they melt.

6. Deposition only happens with water; wind and ice cannot cause deposition.

7. A beach is an example of a landform created by deposition.

8. Look at the image below. What is happening to the sediment in the river, and what kind of landform might be created over time?

Use the words below to complete the sentences.

9. A flat area of land next to a river, formed by sediment deposited during floods, is called a  .

10. When a river flows into an ocean or lake and drops its sediment, it forms a triangular landform known as a  .