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The Milankovitch cycles refers to variations in the following planetary parameters:

A __________ dune will form in relatively flat regions, where sand supply is limited and vegetation is absent.  It will have a crescent shape with its tips pointing downwind.

Which of the following are associated with the advent of an ice age when glaciers worldwide are growing and advancing?

The portion of the beach between the high tide line and the low tide line is called the __________.

What are the three methods of sediment transport by streams and rivers?  List them (1 pt each, 3 pts total) and briefly define or explain (1 pt each, 3 pts total) each method of transport.

An episode of mountain building is termed a(n) ________________.

A __________ forms when a series of alluvial fans coalesce to become a long continuous apron of sediment.

What sort of process has affected the hillside where this tree is growing?

____________ topography is characterized by features including solution valleys, disappearing streams, and speleothems such as stalactites, and is generally associated with regions composed of limestone bedrock.

Metamorphism may be induced by _________.