Soil
Largest soil particle size with little to no water retention
What is sand?
The type of weathering that occurs when a plant grows through a rock breaking the rock into smaller pieces (physical or chemical)
What is physical weathering?
The point on the surface of the Earth where the earthquake is felt
What is the epicenter?
Magma that has reached the Earth's surface
What is lava?
The type of stress that occurs at convergent boundaries
What is compression?
Made of a mixture of weathered rock particles and organic material from plants and animals
What is humus?
The type of weathering that occurs when acid rain dissolves limestone (physical or chemical)
What is chemical weathering?
The point within the Earth where the earthquake originates from
Thick mudflow that occurs when volcanic ash mixes with water
What is Lahar?
The type of fault that occurs along divergent boundaries due to tension stress; the hanging wall moves down relative to the footwall
What is a normal fault?
The individual layers of soil found in a soil profile
What are soil horizons?
What is physical weathering?
The instrument used to detect and located earthquakes
What is a seismograph?
Volcanoes that form in the middle of a tectonic plate
The type of fault where rocks slide past each other horizontally; associated with earthquakes
What is a strike/slip fault?
The smallest soil particle size that has high water retention and low permeability
What is clay?
The process of carrying away weathered soil, rock, and other materials on the Earth's surface by wind, water, and gravity
What is erosion?
The three types of seismic waves in the order they arrive on a seismograph
What are P-waves, S-waves, and Surface waves
What is viscosity?
The three ways rocks respond to stress (The 3 Fs)
What are fold, fracture, and fault?
What is bedrock?
Mounds of sand that are deposited by wind and gravity erosion
What are sand dunes?
A large wave triggered by an earthquake occurring where a slab of the ocean floor is displaced vertically along a fault
The most volcanically active zone on Earth located around the Pacific Plate
What is the Ring of Fire?
The two types of folds that occur when rock is exposed to extreme stress; the rock bends, but does not break
What are anticline and syncline?