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What term is used for glaciers picking up and carrying sediment?
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What term effect does an earthquakes long term or short term?
Answer: Short Term
What term that refers to the adjustments in physiological systems is called?
the term is homeostatic systems
What is the proper term for heart attack what is the mechanism?
Proper Term: Cardiac Arrest
Are there such things as short term tattoos?
Yeah. You can ask any tattoo parlor. Before they get set up, they ask you if you want a long term or short term. They use a different kind of ink for short term tattoos.
What is the term used to describe long-term variation in weather for a particular area?
"climate"
Which term describes the annual layers of sediment deposited in lakes and fjords by meltwater from glaciers?
An annually deposited sedimentary layer is called a varve. Originally the word referred only to those annual layers of sediment deposited in a lake by glaciers, but now the more general use is accepted. Another term used in the literature is "annually laminated."
What is the term associated with rivers of ice?
Glaciers
What is the term for bits of rock and dirt?
Sediment
The picking up and carrying away of the pieces is called?
The movement of material from one place to another place is called erosion.
What term is used to identify windblown sediment of silt and clay?
Wind blown sediment is known as 'Aeolian.'
What is term given to soil that settles in water?
sediment
Which term to large masses of slowly moving ice?
glaciers
Is picked an adjective?
Possibly, as in the term picking machine (agricultural), although this may be a noun adjunct.Picking is the present participle of the verb (to pick) and may be a verb form, participial, or noun (e.g. picking a team, picking cotton, picking your nose, picking through trash).
Which term refers to large masses of slowly moving ice?
glaciers
How do you spell carrying capacity?
That is the correct spelling of the ecosystem term "carrying capacity."
What is the archery term for a bag carrying arrows?
The term is "quiver".
What is called when sediment is laid down in a body of water?
We use the term deposition to describe the process by which sediment is laid down in a body of water. The sediment is said to have been deposited at the bottom of the body of water, and more may follow to build a layer of sediment.
