Rock Cycle
This type of rock is formed from cooled and hardened magma.
What is Igneous?
The breaking down of rocks, minerals, and soil.
What is Weathering?
This is formed when rock fragments mix with air, minerals, and humus.
What is Soil?
This soil layer contributes different particles to the soil and is the original rock from which soil is formed.
What is Parent Rock/Weathered Bedrock?
The ability of a soil to sustain plant growth.
What is Fertility?
This type of rock is created when heat and pressure act on an existing rock.
What is Metamorphic?
The movement of soil by wind and water.
What is Erosion?
Soil gets its characteristics from the ________ rock.
What is Parent?
The layer of soil where living things are found and decay.
What is the Organic Layer?
The dark material created from decaying plants and animals that enriches the soil.
What is Humus?
This type of rock is formed from layers of sediment compacted and cemented together.
What is Sedimentary?
This is formed when rock is broken down by weathering.
What is Sediment?
The ability of soil to transport fluids.
What is Permeability?
The color of soil that indicates it is very fertile and has lots of organic matter.
What is Dark Brown?
Growing different kinds of crops every year in the same area.
What is Crop Rotation?
To become an igneous rock, first rock must melt and become ________.
What is Magma?
Water getting into cracks, freezing, and breaking rock apart is an example of this.
What is Weathering?
As soil particle size increases, permeability ____?
What is Increases?
The element iron causes soil to be this color.
What is Red?
Growing crops that are originally from the area you are planting them in.
What is Native Vegetation?