SOIL VOCABULARY
What is sand?
This is the dropping of sediment and rocks into a new location.
What is deposition?
This term is used to describe the process of rock changing from one type to another.
What is the rock cycle?
This is the term used for the primary force behind erosion.
What is gravity?
This is small particles of weathered rocks and minerals.
What is sediment?
This is the process of wind picking up loose sediment and carrying it away.
What is deflation?
This is the process of breaking down rocks.
What is weathering?
This type of weathering results in the outer layer of rocks being worn away.
What is exfoliation?
In this mass movement, gravity slowly pulls soil down a hill.
What is soil creep?
This is the amount of each kind of particle in a soil sample.
What is texture?
This is the term used for a pile of rocks and soil that are deposited by a glacier.
What is a moraine?
In this process, rocks change into entirely new substances.
What is chemical weathering?
This is the term used for water seeping under a rock, freezing, and pushing the rock upwards.
What is frost heaving?
In this mass movement, gravity pulls rocks and sediment on the sides of hills and mountains.
What is earth flow?
This is the term used for layers of soil.
What is horizons?
This is the area of sediment deposited at the mouth of a river.
What is a delta?
In this process, rocks change shape and size.
What is mechanical weathering?
This is the term used for water seeping into the cracks of a rock, freezing, and forcing the rock apart.
What is frost wedging?
What is In this mass movement, huge slabs of rock break along cracks.
What is rockslides?
This is the term used for decayed organic material found in soil.
What is humus?
This is the term used for sediment carried by a stream.
What is a load?
This is the term used for unweathered rock that influences the soil above.
What is bedrock?
This weak acid slowly wears away rock.
What is carbonic acid?
This mass movement is the most devastating and fastest moving.
What is mudflow?