Soil
Weathering
Erosion
Test Prep
Miscellaneous
100
The bottom layer of soil.
What is bedrock?
100
This is the type of weathering that occurs when water gets behind rocks when it is cold and cracks the rock.
What is ice wedging?
100
Rounded mountains that have eroded form millions of years.
What is the Appalachian Mountains.
100
What acid is in rainwater?
Carbonic
100
This type of soil feels gritty.
What is sand?
200
This is what makes the topsoil dark.
What are decomposing things? (otherwise known as humus)
200
The best climate for weathering to take place rapidly.
What is a hot and wet climate?
200
Name one way erosion occurs.
What is...answers will vary.
200
This gives the reddish-brown (rusty) color to rock?
What is iron oxidation?
200
What makes rock a reddish-brown (rusty) color?
What is iron oxidation?
300
Rich humus is found in this horizon.
What is the A horizon?
300
The Grand Canyon and other canyons were formed from this type of weathering over a long period of time.
What is water movement weathering?
300
Name an example of erosion.
What is...answers will vary.
300
This type of rock has many small, connected air spaces.
What is permeable rock.
300
This soil type clumps up and holds water really well.
What is clay?
400
The uppermost portion of soil that contains decomposing organisms.
What is topsoil?
400
Rock type and climate are most important in determining what?
What is the RATE of weathering
400
Does erosion occur quickly or slowly?
What is slowly?
400
The principal that what is happening now is what happened in the past.
What is Uniformitarianism
400
This type of soil dries quickest because it doesn't hold water well.
What is sand?
500
The layer of soil containing mostly clay and roots.
What is subsoil?
500
Mineral composition changing weathering.
What is chemical weathering.
500
Define erosion.
What is the movement of weathered materials?
500
Sand paper resembles this type of weathering.
What is abrasion.
500
What forms soil?
What is weathering of a rock?
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