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    Wind erosion can cause deflation and abrasion. Deflation occurs when wind removes loose soil particles, leaving the finer soil particles behind. It often affects plowed fields and bare soil. Abrasion occurs when blowing sand hits rocks and soil, wearing away the surface. Sand dunes form when wind slows after being blocked by an obstacle, causing it to drop the sand it was carrying to form mounds with gentle slopes on the windward side and steep slopes on the leeward side. Loess is very fine silt and clay deposited by wind over long distances, and is often found in the central United States and China.

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    Wind erosion can cause deflation and abrasion. Deflation occurs when wind removes loose soil particles, leaving the finer soil particles behind. It often affects plowed fields and bare soil. Abrasion occurs when blowing sand hits rocks and soil, wearing away the surface. Sand dunes form when wind slows after being blocked by an obstacle, causing it to drop the sand it was carrying to form mounds with gentle slopes on the windward side and steep slopes on the leeward side. Loess is very fine silt and clay deposited by wind over long distances, and is often found in the central United States and China.

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    Wind erosion can cause deflation and abrasion. Deflation occurs when wind removes loose soil particles, leaving the finer soil particles behind. It often affects plowed fields and bare soil. Abrasion occurs when blowing sand hits rocks and soil, wearing away the surface. Sand dunes form when wind slows after being blocked by an obstacle, causing it to drop the sand it was carrying to form mounds with gentle slopes on the windward side and steep slopes on the leeward side. Loess is very fine silt and clay deposited by wind over long distances, and is often found in the central United States and China.

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    Wind erosion can cause deflation and abrasion. Deflation occurs when wind removes loose soil particles, leaving the finer soil particles behind. It often affects plowed fields and bare soil. Abrasion occurs when blowing sand hits rocks and soil, wearing away the surface. Sand dunes form when wind slows after being blocked by an obstacle, causing it to drop the sand it was carrying to form mounds with gentle slopes on the windward side and steep slopes on the leeward side. Loess is very fine silt and clay deposited by wind over long distances, and is often found in the central United States and China.

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    EARTH SCIENCE 8-11 HOW DOES WIND CAUSE EROSION?

    OBJ: Describe two kinds of wind erosion and deposition

    I. DEFLATION =__________________________________________
    ___________________________________________.
    Wind - Has ____________.
    - ____________sail boats across water.
    - ____________blades of windmills.
    Where Deflation occurs - ____________
    - plowed ____________.
    - on ____________.

    II. ABRASION - blowing sand can hit rocks and exposed soil, some of
    the surface of the rock and soil become ____________
    away.
    - ___________________has the same effect.

    III. SAND DUNES = _________________________________________.


    How sand dunes are made 1. a rock/barrier blocks wind, the wind
    ____________down.
    2. As the wind slows, it ____________the sand it
    was carrying.
    3. The sand ____________ up and forms a mound.
    2 sides of a sand dune - ________________ Side
    - gentle slope up
    - ____________ Face
    - steep slope

    IV. LOESS =__________________________________________


    ___________________________________________.
    - wind carries silt and clay ____________ and
    ____________ then sand.
    Where found ____________ _______________ _________
    ____________ ____________
    ____________

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