Ice, Wind, Wave, and Stream
What are the 4 types of Erosion?
The upward movement of rock due to freezing and thawing.
What is Frost Heaving?
The three particles that largely make up soil.
What are sand, silt, and clay?
Acid Rain, Carbonic Acid, lichens, and mosses.
What are the agents of chemical weathering?
A substance formed from decayed organic material in the ground.
What is humus?
This can cause narrowing and deep erosion of a stream bed that will later fill back in with sediment.
What is a flash flood?
This process of chemical weathering causes iron to rust.
What is oxidation?
The smallest soil particle.
What is clay?
Sediment that is deposited at the mouth of a river.
What is a delta?
The total amount of sediment carried in a body of water.
What is load?
A formation that results when softer, less weather resistant rocks wear away and leave harder, more weather resistant rocks behind.
What is a hoodoo?
O Horizon.
What is top layer of the soil horizon?
sand dunes are examples of this type of erosion
What is wind erosion?
Slowly moving earth down a hillside over time.
What is Soil Creep?
Helps determine whether or not your land is fertile.
What is soil texture?