Earth's Spheres
What is the geosphere?
Mostly solid, rocky part of Earth
What are the 2 kinds of of weathing?
Physical and chemical
what dose gradiend mean?
Measure of change in elevation over a certain distance.
Thick deposits of this windblown fine-grained sediment.
What is soil?
A loose mixture of small rock fragments organic matter, water, and air that suport the growth of vegetation.
What are the two green house gases?
Carbon dioxide
Acid precipitation is an agent of ______ weathing.
Chemical
What is Erson?
The process which sediment and there marerials are moved from one place yp another.
What happens when glaciers move and pick up matierals?
The matierals become enbeded to the ice.
What is pore space
The space between soil particles.
Which speres are intracting when a volcano erupts and releases gases into the air?
Geospere and Atmospere
How are acids produces?
With natural living organisms.
What is deposition?
The process which eroded material is dropped.
What can happen when wind blows sand and other particles blow against a surface?
It wears things down.
What is soil feritily?
How will soil can support plant growth.
What two things that can disturb Earth's energy budget?
Greenhouse gasses and decause in polar ice caps.
Canyons,valleys, Floodplians,Deltas,and alluvial fans
What is a sharp ridge called?
arete
What are temperate soils?
Soil that forms in regions with moderate rainfall and temperature.
Where is the mantle located and what is it made out of?
The mantle is below the crust and its made out of very slow-forming, solid rock.
Could regions are often affected by a basin. What process would cause increased abraison along a coastal region?
What forces shape a shoreline?
Wave currents
When do mudflow happen?
What is soil PH Determind by?
A combination of minerals,sedimernt and organic matter.