Weathering
Soil
Mass Movements
Tremors
Cracks in the Earth
100
Types of weathering
What are mechanical and chemical?
100
Responsible for soil formation
What is mechanical and chemical weathering?
100
Diagram shows a __________
What is an Alpine glacier?
100
Waves of energy that travel through Earth's ground materials
What are seismic waves?
100
Types of volcanoes
What are cindercone, strato/composite, and shield?
200
Caused by ice, water, wind, and gravity
What is erosion?
200
mostly organic matter
humus
200
The cause of all mass movements on Earth
What is gravity?
200
Earthquakes can occur anywhere.
What is true?
200
What is a strike-slip fault?
300
Causes a permanent change to the original material
What is chemical weathering?
300
First step in soil formation
What is the weathering of bedrock or horizon R?
300
created by the thawing and refreezing of snow and ice crystals
What is an avalanche?
300
Most commonly known scale for measuring the intensity of an earthquake
What is the Richter Scale?
300
underwater locations where plates move away from one another
What are mid-ocean ridges?
400
This landform is a result of _____________
What is deposition?
400
composed of the most layers or horizons
What are mature soils?
400
The razorback ridge that runs near the center of this diagram
What is an arete?
400
A sudden, less powerful earthquake that often follows a larger earthquake
What is an aftershock?
400
A type of volcano that has erupted recently and is likely to erupt again soon
What is an active volcano?
500
results from __________ and ____________?
What is wind and deposition?
500
Abbreviated name given to the 5 factors that influence soil formation
What is CLORPT? Climate, Organisms, Relief, Parent material and Time
500
the 6 types of mass movement
What are landslide/rockslide, mudslide, slumps, avalanches, creep, and flow?
500
Used to pinpoint the epicenter of an earthquake
What is triangulation?
500
Has more than one lava vent from the center lava chamber to the exterior
What is a strato or composite volcano?