Soil
Characteristics of soil
Soil composition, soil texture, soil structure,
What do Rockfalls consist of?
rocks and fragments
Agents of Chemical Weathering
Water, most important. H2o plus Co2 = H2Co3
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Soil Formation
parent material, time, climate, organisms, slope
What are slumps?
chunks of material
What is going to chemically change quicker, limestone or sandstone?
Limestone
How does mechanical weathering change the rate of chemical weathering
Mechanical weathering accelerates chemical weathering by increasing the surface area of rock exposed
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WHat type of soil occurs is desserts?
Pedocal
What are mudflows?
Thick combination of rock, water, and dirt.
What has to combine with iron to make rust?
Oxygen
How does climate affect weathering
Temp, and moisture influence the kind of vegetation
Off The Wall
Vans
What horizon is also known as subsoil?
B Horizon
What is a creep?
slowest type of movement
When things chemically weather, Oxygen is absorbed from the atmosphere and....?
ground
How do rock characteristics affect weathering
physical characteristics such as cracks influence the ability of water to penetrate the rock.
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Converse
What kind of soil is found in hot, wet tropical areas?
Laterite
Triggers of mass movement?
water saturation
oversteepened Slopes
Removal of vegetation
Earthquakes
What combines with water to make carbonic acid?
Co2
What weathering feature is found at the base of double bluff?
Talus Slope
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