Chapter 11
Soil, fresh water, timber and animals are all this type of resource
What are renewable resources?
This type of weathering might cause a rock to turn red over time, when exposed to water.
What is chemical weathering?
Minerals are always found in this state of matter.
What is solid?
The very bottom layer of a soil horizon, from which all soil forms.
What is bedrock/parent material?
This holiday is celebrated in every country around the world.
What is New Years?
In this timber harvesting method, all of the trees in an area are cut down.
What is Clearcutting?
Most of the nutrients found in soil come from this natural process.
What is decomposition?
Streak, hardness, cleavage, fracture, luster, and density are examples of these.
What are mineral properties?
This term describes the layer of decomposed plants and animals, and other nutrient rich, natural matter found mixed into the A horizon.
What is humus?
This super hero was able to pick up Thor's Hammer in Avengers Endgame.
Who is Captain America?
The largest amount number of a resource that can be removed from the environment while still leaving enough of the resource available for reproduction.
What is maximum sustainable yield?
This term describes land that is available for growing crops.
What is arable land?
This scale is used to rank the hardness of a mineral on a scale of 1 to 10. 1 being talc, 10 being diamonds.
What is the Mohs Scale?
In this farming practice, farmers carve step-like shapes into steep hills to provide horizontal surfaces for farming and to help prevent erosion.
What is terracing?
This piece of sporting equipment has a regulation diameter of 18 inches.
What is a basketball hoop?
This part of a tree describes the topmost layer of leaves.
What is the canopy?
Most plants are grown in this soil horizon.
What is the A horizon?
This type of rock is formed when rock is heated to high temperatures, but does not melt. Instead, it's chemical composition changes and it's crystal structure rearranges, forming a new rock.
What is metamorphic?
This type of rock is formed when small pieces of weathered rock are compressed together and cemented by minerals.
What is sedimentary rock?
This color is at the bottom of a standard traffic light?
What is green?
This part of a forest includes the tall grass, short plants and other foliage near the bottom of a tree.
What is brush?
As overpopulation occurs in an area, farmland can be mistreated in order to keep up with the growing need for food. This results in this term, meaning land which was once fertile now is now unusable for farmland.
What is desertification?
This material is mined from the Earth and contains minerals.
What is ore?
In this type of mining, horizontal layers are removed from Earth's surface, the minerals are removed and then the surface layers are replaced.
What is strip mining?
The number of colors in a rainbow
What is seven?