Plants grow in this which makes it an important resource.
What is soil?
100
The item you change in an experiment.
What is a variable?
100
What is the definition of erosion?
What is movement of rock pieces to a new place.
200
It does this by blowing sand in the air.
What is wind erosion.
200
The equator is O degrees and is on a line of?
What is latitude?
200
If there is too much rain for the soil to retain the water.
What is the water with be carried away by runoff.
200
You should only change one or it makes you test invalid.
What is a variable?
200
The process when the erosion drops in a new place.
What is deposition?
300
It does this by water freezing in cracks of rocks.
What is weathering by ice?
300
102W Longitude mean
What is it is West of the Prime Meridian.
300
The make-up of soil most plant like.
What is 25% air, 25% water, 45% nutrients/minerals, 5% organic material.
300
The variable a student should change if they are seeing what soil retains the most water?
What is the soil?
300
Erosion and Deposition can both....
What is destroy and form new landforms?
400
It is steep and jagged?
What is a new mountain?
400
This is located between 26N-36N.
What is Texas?
400
The five factors important for forming soil.
What is location, materials, climate, organism, and time?
400
How to find the amount of water retained.
What is subtracting the water that came out from the amount you started with?
400
How does wind use erosion to weather the Earth's surface?
What is breaks down rocks by the sand in the air?
500
Freezing cannot cause weathering.
What is if there are no cracks in the rock already.
500
The area between 32N and 32S.
What is the tropics.....where Ms. F and Mrs. Grubb wished they were...haha!
500
DAILY DOUBLE - DAILY DOUBLE
This is worth 2 times the points and everyone gets to answer.
The reason each of the five factors are importnat to forming soil.
What is
location:Decides the type of minerals and nutrients
materials: what goes into the soil to form it
climate: what type of weathering takes place
organisms: the organic matter that makes it soil
TIME: ALL OF THESE NEED TIME TO WORK TOGETHER TO MAKE SOIL!
500
The type of question you need to perform an experiment.