A rock that is formed from weathering, erosion, and deposition of sediments over a long periods of time.
What is sedimentary rock?
What are the four primary soils that we study? (S.C.L.S)
What are sand, clay, loam and silt?
What are the agents of erosion?
What are wind, water, and ice?
A landform that is a vent in the earth's crust through which lava, steam, and ashes expelled.
What is a volcano?
What agent of erosion and processes create a delta?
What are water erosion and deposition?
The breaking down of rocks.
What is weathering?
The diameter of a grain of a sediment The size of a soil sediment.
What is particle size?
Small pieces of broken down, weathered rock that are eroded by wind water and ice.
What is sediment?
To send out lava, rocks, and ash in a sudden explosion.
What is erupt?
The process or result of slowly breaking down by natural processes.
What is decay or decompose?
When layers of sediments stack on top of each other over time.
What is deposition?
A property of soil that describes it's ability to hold water.
What is retain?
What agent of erosion and process create a sand dune?
What is the agent of erosion wind?
What is the process of erosion?
A sudden violent shaking of the ground, typically causing great destruction, as a result of movements within the earth's crust.
What is earthquake?
The protection of things found in nature.
What is conservation?
When water, wind and ice transport and wear away sediments.
What is erosion?
What is Texture?
What agent of erosion and processes create a canyon?
What agent of erosion is water?
What processes are weathering and erosion?
A slide of a large mass of dirt and rock down a mountain or cliff slide.
What is a landslide?
Resources that are capable of being replaced by nature in a short period of time.
What are renewable resources?
What are the final two stages in the sedimentary rock cycle. One stage involves heat, time and pressure and sediments being squeezed together and the other stage involves the sediments being cemented together.
What is compaction?
What is cementation?
What soil has a small particles sizes and retains lots of water?
What is clay?
How is U- Shaped valley created?
What is erosion by a glacier?
What most likely cause this rapid change? rapid change to the Earth's surface.
What is a volcano?
The process of converting waste materials into new materials and objects.
What is recycling?