Vocabulary 1
The process by which water, ice, wind, or gravity moves weathered particles of rock and soil
Erosion
Give me an example how you use chemical weathering
Breaking down a rock with a chemical change
Fine wind-deposited sediment
Loess
Give me an example of mechanical weathering
Breaking down an rock with an physically change
A deposit of wind blown sand
Sand dune
where does plant grow on
Earth’s surface
The geologic principals that the same geological processes that operate today operated in the past to change Earth’s surface
Uniformitarianism
What is the typical color of humus
Dark-colored
Process of erosion moves material
Sediment
What process moves material
Process of erosion
Dark -colored organic material in soil
Humus
when does deposition occur
Where the agents of erosion deposit, or lay down,sediment
Occurs where the agents of erosion deposit, or lay down, sediment
Deposition
which natural forces are involved in the process of erosion tell me 4 of them
Water, ice , wind, or gravity
The loose weathered material on Earth’s surface in which plants can grow
Soil
What is laid down during deposition
Sediment
Process by which wind removes surface material
Deflation
What causes mass movement
Gravity
Type of weathering in which rock is physically broken into smaller pieces
Mechanical weathering
What kind of sediment is loess
Loess is fine wind-deposited sediment
Gravity causes one of several processes that move sediment downhill
Mass movement
How is sand dune formed
By the deposition of windblown sand
The process that breaks down rock through chemical changes
Chemical weathering
What process involves wind removing surface material
Deflation
What agent causes deflation
Wind