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Q: What is erosion called mass movement is caused by?
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What is the downhill movement of rock or soil?

erosion or mass movement


What is a type erosion?

deposition mass movement


What is another name for mass movement?

erosion


What agent of erosion is mass movement?

Gravity. Example of mass movement (or mass wasting) include landslides and earthflows.


What cause's a mass movement?

A mass movement is caused by Gravity.


What is mass movement erosion?

its is when something happens on soil


The process in which dirt an rock move from one place to another?

Erosion is the answer of the movement of the soil form one place to another .This answer is true believe me.


Mass wasting is a form of erosion caused by ice?

no


What caused the shape of the Earth?

1. weathering-physical and/or chemical2. erosion-different agents of weathering3.mass movement-land and mud slides4. tectonic plate movement-convergent and/or divergent5. gravity


What factors caused the shape of the earth?

1. weathering-physical and/or chemical2. erosion-different agents of weathering3.mass movement-land and mud slides4. tectonic plate movement-convergent and/or divergent5. gravity


Erosion that occurs when gravity alone causes rock or sediment to move down a slope?

The type of erosion that occurs when gravity alone causes rock or sediment to move down a slope is called mass movement. The types of mass movement are creep, slump, rock slides, and mudflows.


What force and what can contribute to both erosion and mass wasting?

gravity and movement