This type of weathering is also known as physical weathering.
What is mechanical weathering?
100
The dropping of loose materials.
What is deposition?
100
The ease with which water will flow through soil.
What is permeability?
100
This force is responsible for most of the landforms found on Earth's crust.
What is water?
100
A fan-shaped deposit formed as rivers or streams empty into larger bodies of water.
What is a delta (or alluvial fan)?
200
Oxidation is a form of this type of weathering.
What is chemical weathering?
200
The two main types of glaciers.
What are alpine glaciers and continental glaciers?
200
A crumbly mixture of weathered rock and organic material.
What is topsoil or horizon A?
200
The difference between the shape of a river valley and the shape of a glacial valley.
What is that river valleys are v-shaped and glacial valleys are u-shaped?
200
Of sand, silt, and clay, this has the most rapid drainage.
What is sand?
300
The difference between weathering and erosion.
What is the breakdown of rock (weathering) vs. the movement of rock (erosion)?
300
Three forces that cause erosion.
What are water(rivers and waves), glaciers, wind, or gravity?
300
Three major properties of soil.
What are color, composition, texture, and permeability?
300
Three types of mass wasting.
What are talus, slump, and creep?
300
Three landforms produced by wind.
What are desert pavement, dunes, and loess?
400
Five factors that affect weathering.
What are climate, vegetation, structure, type of rock, and surface area?
400
Three factors that affect erosion by gravity.
What are landscape slope, water flow, saturation of soil, type or rock or sediment?
400
Four factors that affect soil development.
What are climate, vegetation, time, topography, type of rocks, and biotic activity?
400
Four types of landforms caused by glaciers.
What are cirques, aretes, horns, hanging valleys, moraines, drumlins, kames, and eskers?
400
Four different types of chemical weathering.
What are oxidation, hydrolysis, solution, hydration, and organisms?
500
Seven types of mechanical weathering.
What are abrasion, pressure, freezing, temperature, salt wedging, animals, & plants?
500
Erosion by moving water mainly depends on these two factors.
What are the speed and amount of moving water?
500
The four-step process describing soil formation.
What are the following:
1. Soil forms from the surface downward and from the bottom up.
2. Humus and other decaying materials in the top layer continue to decompose and move lower into the soil profile.
3. Rock particles from weathered rock move up higher toward the surface.
4. The two meet and mix together to form the topsoil layer.
500
What are five landforms caused by ocean waves and currents?
What are sea cliffs, platforms, sea caves, sea arches, sea stacks, beaches, spits, and barrier islands?
500
Describe the four soil horizons from top to bottom.
What are the following:
O: The thinnest layer that includes the most organic matter (leaf litter, humus, and animal parts)
A: Topsoil (mixture of weathered rock and organic material)
B: Subsoil (very fine sediment and minerals)
C: Weathered material and bedrock (no organic matter)