What The Weather?
This is the process in which materials on or near Earth’s surface break down and change.
What is weathering?
This is the removal of weathered rock and soil from its original location.
What is erosion?
Known as the loose covering of weathered rock particles and decaying organic matter overlying the bedrock of Earth’s surface.
What is soil?
These are the names of the two different types of rocks (other than igneous).
What is sedimentary and metamorphic?
The name for a type of rock that means they have been changed.
What is metamorphic?
This is the yype of weathering in which rocks and minerals break down into smaller pieces. It is also called “physical weathering.”
What is mechanical weathering?
There are two types of water erosion. This type is when a channel becomes deep and wide as a result of further erosion.
What is gully erosion?
These are two different soil layers.
What is residual and transported?
This is the process that is both physical and chemical that transform sediments into sedimentary rocks.
What is the lithification process?
This is a distinction of metamorphic rocks. You can name both or just one. One distinction is when they contain layers and bands of minerals. The other is when they are composed of mainly minerals the form with blocky crystal shapes.
What is foliated or non-foliated?
There are two effects in mechanical weathering. This is the effect where the roots of trees and other plants can exert pressure on rocks and wedge themselves into cracks.
What is the effect of pressure?
When there is constant movement of waves in oceans result in continuous erosion along coast lines, often resulting in sandbars or barrier islands.
What is wave action?
There are five factors of soil formation. This factor includes the slope and orientation of the land – this affects the type of soil that forms.
What is topography?
In sedimentary rocks, we see horizontal layering that results from the way sediment settles out of water or wing. This is what that layering is known as.
What is bedding?
There are three types of metamorphism. This one occurs when temps and pressure affect large regions of Earth’s crust.
What is regional?
This is a type of weathering where rocks and minerals undergo changes in their composition.
What is chemical weathering?
There are three other types of erosion. This type can carry huge rocks and piles of debris, grinding the rocks underneath them into flour-sized particles often resulting in U-shape lakes and valleys.
What is glacial erosion?
There are five factors of soil formation. This factor is when fungus and bacteria interact with soil and microorganisms decompose dead plants and animals.
What is biological activity?
When sediment is moved into small ridges by wind or wave action or by a river current this is the name of the feature that occurs.
What are ripple marks?
There are three types of metamorphism. This one occurs when molten material come in contact with solid rock.
What is contact?
There are four different effects in chemical weathering. This one has an end result where carbonic acid combines with minerals to dissolve rocks.
What is the effect of Carbon Dioxide?
This another of the three types of erosion that results from plants and animals naturally moving Earth’s surface materials from one place to another.
What is erosion by living things?
These are the three key areas/characteristics of soil.
What is texture, fertility and color?
There are two types of sedimentary rocks. Two answers and you only need to remember one.
What is clastic or chemical (biochemical)?
There are three types of metamorphism. This one occurs when very hot water reacts with rock and alters its chemical and mineral composition.
What is hydrothermal?