Matching
The sediment that a stream carries?
Load
Types of Mechanical Weathering - name one where rocks rub against each other?
Abrasion
The process of breaking down rocks?
Weathering
What is one type of Chemical Weathering where these secrete a mild acid that dissolves the rocks and further breaks down the rocks into soil?
Lichens or mosses
What changes rock into new substances?
Chemical Weathering
Largest kind of particle in soil
sand
What is one type of mechanical weathering where flooding or fires occur?
Catastrophic Events
What forms when unmelted snow gets compacted down into ice?
Glacier
Types of Mechanical Weathering - name the one where carbonic acid dissolves in water creating what weak acid?
Carbonic Acid
The process of rock changing from one type to another is called?
The Rock Cycle
Layers of soil
horizons
Types of Mechanical Weathering - name the one where water gets underneath a rock freezing which pushes the rock upward?
Frost heaving
Unweathered rock that influences the soil above it is called?
Types of Mechanical Weathering - name the one where oxygen in air combines with iron to form rust?
oxidation
This occurs when rocks rub against each other?
Abrasion
Piles of rocks and soil deposited by a glacier?
Moraine
Types of Mechanical Weathering - name the one where a shift in the ground around them can reduce the pressure and cause the rocks to expand rapidly?
Pressure Release
What is an example of erosion that is caused by gravity
soil creep, earth flow, mudflow, rockslide, and avalanche
Types of Mechanical Weathering - name one?
Acid Rain
The primary force behind erosion?
Gravity
The process of wind picking up loose sediment and carrying it away?
Deflation
Types of Mechanical Weathering - name the one related to pressure released where cracks occur and break peeling back often like an onion?
Exfoliation
What contains weathered minerals and some nutrients from the humus?
Subsoil
What is one type of Chemical Weathering where these secrete a mild acid that dissolves the rocks and further breaks down the rocks into soil?
Mosses or lichens
A fertile soil that has equal pars of sand and silt combined with about half as much clay is called?
Loam