Lithosphere
________ is the solid portion of earth.
What is the Lithosphere?
Natural forces lift up the landscape.
what is uplift?
adding salt to water
What is salination?
the living portion of Earth.
What is the biosphere?
These two layers of Earth make up the Lithosphere.
What is the crust and part of the upper mantle?
Landscapes produced when denudation exceeds uplift.
what are erosional landscapes?
A dynamic material composed of fine particles in which plants grow.
What is Soil?
the flow of energy, water and nutrients through the biosphere
What is the food chain?
______ is the outer layer of the Earth.
What is the crust?
Landscapes produced when uplift exceeds denudation.
What are depositional landscapes?
the three parts that make up soil texture?
What are sand, silt, and clay?
This is causing issues for life zones.
what is climate change?
________ is the ongoing state of change in the Lithosphere.
What is the geologic (rock) cycle?
No chemical change, rocks break down naturally
what is physical weathering?
study of the origin, distribution, classification and description of soils.
What is pedology?
Species have these two options as global warming changes life zone temperatures.
What is to move or adapt?
The processes that currently shape the Earth have always done so in the same manner.
what is uniformitarianism?
Areas where chemical weathering of limestone dominates entire landscapes
What are Karst Landscapes?
water or wind detaches and removes soil particles, causing the soil to deteriorate.
What is soil erosion?
tropical rainforest, deciduous forest, evergreen forest, tundra