The process of flowing water, ice, wind, or gravity slowing down and dropping sediments.
What is deposition?
100
Rocks formed from cooling of melted rock (magma/lava).
What are igneous rocks?
100
Heat can cause the outside of a rock to expand faster on the outside than the inside. When the rock cools, the inside shrinks faster than the outside causing the outer layer to peel off.
What is Thermal expansion/contraction?
100
Mr. Cook's birthday. (month, day, and year)
What is Feb. 17th, 1974?
200
Dead and decaying plant and animals found in topsoil and subsoil.
What is humus?
200
The process of breaking down rocks.
What is weathering?
200
Rocks formed from heat and pressure from any other type of rock.
What are metamorphic rocks?
200
The soil is made up of large-sized pieces and feels gritty, like sand.
What is grainy?
200
The three types of rocks we studied during our rocks and mineral section.
What are sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous rocks?
300
The layers of soil starting from the bottom.
What are bedrock, parent material, subsoil, and topsoil?
300
This is NOT an agent of erosion:
A. Wind
B. Sunlight
C. Gravity
D. Flowing Water
What is Sunlight?
300
Bits of weathered rock that have been compacted and cemented together.
What is sedimentary rock?
300
When rocks are physically broken down into smaller pieces; the chemical make-up of the rock does NOT change.
What is mechanical weathering?
300
A small stream or brook talked about in a Bill Nye video.
What is a brill?
400
The types of pieces of weathered rock in soil.
What are sand, silt, and clay?
400
Snow that accumulates to form deep masses of ice become a(n) ___________.
What is a glacier?
400
The two types of rocks where fossils are NOT usually found.
What metamorphic and igneous rocks?
400
What something is made of.
What is composition?
400
Coal is this type of rock.
What is sedimentary rock?
500
Three properties of soil, all beginning with "c", that are used to identify soil type.
What are color, consistency, composition?
500
The percentages of sand, silt, and clay found in loam.
What is "40-40-20"?
500
Pure substance, made of one kind of material.
What is a mineral?
500
The meaning of the word "igneous".
What is fire?
500
The other material in soil besides air, water, and pieces of rocks.