Weathering Schmeathering
Hello Soil, Bye-Bye Soil
Look What We Got
Vocab Schmocab
From Da Test
100
Weathering occurs in these two processes.
What is chemical and physical?
100
Rain, wind, waves, running water, gravity, and glaciers.
What are the causes of erosion?
100
The one depositional feature of our California mountains.
What are moraines?
100
Freezing, melting, freezing, melting. The rock's gonna be in pain!!!!
What is frost wedging?
100
This is the most important agent of erosion.
What is water?
200
When soil is made, it has these three ingredients.
What are weathered rock, minerals, and organic matter?
200
Found only in Antarctica and Greenland.
What are continental glaciers?
200
The hottest place on earth.
What is Death Valley?
200
Unweathered parent material (think of the Flinstones)?
What is bedrock?
200
If you saw long scratch marks on a flat rock you would suspect this agent or erosion.
What is a glacier?
300
This is one of the toxic gases that erodes away our tombstones and Sphinxes.
What is greenhouse gases, or carbonic acid, or sulfur dioxide in acid rain?
300
Three forms of erosion due to gravity.
What are rock-slides, landslides, mudslides, or creeps?
300
This river flows North, this river flows South.
What is San Joaquin River flows North, and the Sacramento River flows South?
300
These form when the rivers changes direction, leaving a bunch of water all by itself.
What is an oxbow lake?
300
Rock slides are caused by this.
What is gravity?
400
These two living organisms can cause weathering.
What are plants and animals?
400
Louisiana tries to prevent these depositional forces by building levees. Keyword - tries.
What is a flood?
400
This creature can remain dormant in our Mohave Desert, that is until vegetation finally appears.
What is the locust?
400
Remains of a rocky coastline that have not been eroded.
What are sea arches or sea stacks?
400
These can decrease the amount of erosion that can occur.
What are plants? (Remember Mike Rowe and his dirty job? Hydroseeding!)
500
The difference between hummus and humus.
What is hummus (two m's) is edible and delicious. What is humus (one m) is disgusting to us, but tasty for plants?
500
The difference between the two wind-blown deposits loess and sand.
What is loess is a fine silt (left behind by glaciers), and sand is coarse (that form mounds/dunes)?
500
Where most of California lives.
What is the coast?
500
What we place in the ocean to prevent loss of sediment on the shore.
What is a groin?
500
This is one of the most abundant components in soil.
What is clay?
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