Falling for you
This category of mass wasting is characterised by free falls of earth materials
What is a fall?
These are planes of weaknesses in rocks.
What are discontinuities?
This type of strain is non-permanent.
What is elastic strain?
This is the weakest category of earth materials.
What are soils?
This greasy fruit requires 4.1 gallons of water just to produce a small sliver.
What is an avocado?
This category of mass wasting is characterised by movement of blocks of material down a defined failure surface.
What is a slide?
This type of discontinuity describes a change in lithology in sedimentary rocks.
What is a bedding plane?
The ultimate strength of intact rocks is determined by the amount of uniaxial stress you can apply to a core before this type of strain occurs.
What is brittle deformation or fracture?
Rocks with this texture are the strongest.
What is crystalline/aphanitic?
Ground into flour, turned into milk, or eaten on their own, just 16 of these require 15.3 gallons of water to produce.
What are almonds?
This type of mass movement is characterised by imperceptibly slow, discrete movements of particles downslope.
What is creep?
This type of discontinuity describes a fracture where there is no movement of the rocks on either side.
What is a joint?
Rocks will tend to experience this type of strain when stress is applied over a long period of time.
What is ductile or plastic?
This rating system describes the ratio of core lengths greater than 10 cm to the total length of the core.
What is the Rock Quality Designation (RQD)?
Albertans love it, but this food has the highest water consumption of all food items.
What is beef?
This category of mass wasting occurs in loose, saturated sediment.
What is a flow?
This word describes discontinuities that dip in the same direction as the slope of an outcrop.
What is daylighting?
What is ductile or plastic deformation?
This rating system uses observations about rocks to semi-quantitatively categorize them into one of five classes.
What is Rock Mass Rating (RMR)?
Delicious fried, this starchy root vegetable has among the lowest water consumption.
What is the potato?
The Indonesian term describing fast flows of volcanic ash.
What is a lahar?
The strength of discontinuities is evaluated by applying this type of stress.
What is shear stress?
Deeply buried rocks experience equal pressure in all directions, known as ______.
What is confining pressure?
This force holds claystone, mudstones, shales and soils together
What is van der Waals bonding?
Water consumption refers to water that is returned to this sphere.
What is the atmosphere?