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Q: What is the term for the rapid mass movement that flows downhill?
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What is the term for a rapid mass movement that flows downhill over a curved surface?

slump


What rapid and fluid type of downhill mass movement is a?

mudslide


What is the downhill movement of rock or soil?

erosion or mass movement


What are large amounts of sediments sliding downhill?

mass movement


Mass of wet sediment that flows downhill over the ground surface is called?

water


What includes several processes caused by gravity that move sediment downhill?

mass movement is the CORRECT answer to this question. :)


Is a slump mass movement or a creep mass movement faster?

A slump mass movement is faster because a creep mass movement is the slowest kind of mass movement.it is slow because the mass movement involve gradual downhill movement of soil and regolith.


What is the mass movement that occurs when sediment suddenly slips downhill in one large mass?

Slump


What are the four types of mass movement?

Mass movement (also known as mass wasting) can be any of four types of motions :creep (objects lean downhill over many years)slump (rock and soil slip down a hill in one large mass)slides (landslides : rock and soil slide downhill)flows (mudslides and mudflows: rock and soil mixed with water slides downhill)Under some definitions, there are two other types, which do not involve "flows" of material. They are :topples (rock pivots off a slope)falls (rock separates and falls without flowing)


Example of the mass movement flows?

landslides


What is a mass movement from one place to another?

displacement or downhill movement of debri due to gravitational forces


Is a mass movement called a gravity occurs when sediment suddenly slips downhill in one large mass?

Slump.