Soils
Where can you find the best, most fertile soil?
Forest
Created from magma or lava that has cooled and contains crystals
Igneous Rocks
The breaking apart of rocks into smaller pieces is called...
A massive sheet of ice that moves slowly, carrying bits of rock and soil is called a...
Glacier
When weathering breaks down rock, the pieces are called...
Sediments
What category of soil has pebbles, gravel, sand, silt, and clay in soil?
Created from sediments that can get compacted together and create layers
Sedimentary Rocks
What do we call a narrow, steep-sided valley?
Canyon
The process by which water, wind, or ice carries AWAY earth materials or sediment.
Erosion
What category of soil has Worms, bacteria, and other things alive in soil?
Living Organisms
Created from heat and pressure and contain both layers and crystals
Metamorphic Rocks
A type of physical weathering where a seed lands in the cracks of a rock, grows roots, and the roots break the rock.
Root Wedging
What do we call a broad area in which a river flows?
Valley
The process by which eroded materials settle in another place
Deposition
What do we call organic material like decaying plants and animals?
Humus
Basalt and Grantie are examples of which type of rock?
Igneous
A type of chemical weathering that creates holes in the rocks
Acid Rain
Which landform is carved out of a huge rock from water and acid rain?
An overflow of rushing water on land is called...
What are the three main categories that make up soil?
Rocks, Humus, Living things
Marble and Quartzite are examples of which type of rock?
Metamorphic Rock
Minerals in rocks that are changed due to chemicals from the water or air and break the rocks.
Chemical weathering
Which landform is a massive body of water that has layers of sediments at the bottom?
What makes Earth/Landforms change rapidly?
Natural Distasters