Vocab
A cave structure that hangs from the ceiling of a cave.
What is a stalactite?
This type of mechanical weathering when occurs when water freezes in a rock and causes it to expand.
What is frost wedging?
This is the largest kind of soil particle.
What is sand?
This is term used to describe soil creep, earth flow, mudflow, rockslide, and avalance.
What is mass movement?
This is the changing of rock.
What is rock cycle?
A term used for multiple layers of soil.
What are horizons?
What is carbonic acid?
A scientist who studies soil.
Who is a pedologist?
This occurs when the wind blows small, loose particles such as clay and silt.
What is a dust storm?
This type of rock forms below the earth's crust by great heat and pressure.
What is metamorphic rock?
This is the deposits of soil and rock a glacier picked up on its way down a mountain.
What is a moraine?
This mechanical weathering occurs when rocks rub against each other.
What is abrasion?
In this horizon, most plants germinate and grow roots.
What is topsoil?
This is the sediment a stream carries.
What is load?
This type of rock forms when magma cools either below or above earth's surface.
What is igneous rock?
This occurs when wind, water, or ice drops sediment and rocks in a new location.
What is desposition?
This type of chemical weathering occurs when oxygen in the air combines with iron to form rust.
What is oxidation?
This is the amount of each kind of particle in a soil sample.
What is texture?
This is when wind picks up loose sediment and carries it away.
What is deflation?
These are small particles that when they settle and harden, they form sedimentary rock.
What is sediment?
A term for decayed, organic materail.
What is humus?
This mechanical weathering results in cracks/breaks in the rock or exfolation.
What is pressure release?
This is when equal parts of sand and silt are combined with about half as much clay.
What is loam?
These are the five agents of erosion.
What is gravity, stream, wave, wind, and ice/glacial erosion?
This type of sedimentary rock is commonly found in caves and is easily melted by acidic water.
What is limestone?