Weather...
Erosion
Deposition
Add'l Weather/Erosion
Soil
100
The process by which rock materials are broken down by the action of chemical or physical processes.
What is Weathering?
100

Ice, Wind, Wave, and Stream

What are the 4 types of Erosion?

100
The process in which material is laid down or dropped.
What is Deposition?
100

The upward movement of rock due to freezing and thawing.

What is Frost Heaving?

100

The three particles that largely make up soil.

What are sand, silt, and clay? 

200
The two types of weathering.
What are Mechanical and Chemical weathering?
200
The process by which soil and sediment are transported from one location to the other.
What is Erosion?
200
The grinding and wearing away of rock surfaces through the mechanical action of other rock or sand particles.
What is Abrasion?
200

Acid Rain, Carbonic Acid, lichens, and mosses.

What are the agents of chemical weathering?

200

A substance formed from decayed organic material in the ground.

What is humus?

300
The breakdown of rock into smaller pieces by physical means.
What is Mechanical (Physical) Weathering?
300
The type of erosion that erodes soil and rock to make a channel.
What is Stream Erosion?
300

This can cause narrowing and deep erosion of a stream bed that will later fill back in with sediment.

What is a flash flood?

300

This process of chemical weathering causes iron to rust.

What is oxidation?

300

The smallest soil particle.

What is clay?

400
Ice, water, wind, plants, gravity, and animals.
What are the agents of Mechanical (Physical) Weathering?
400

Sediment that is deposited at the mouth of a river.

What is a delta?

400

The total amount of sediment carried in a body of water.

What is load?

400

A formation that results when softer, less weather resistant rocks wear away and leave harder, more weather resistant rocks behind.

What is a hoodoo?

400

O Horizon.

What is top layer of the soil horizon?

500
The process by which rocks break down as a result of chemical reactions.
What is Chemical Weathering?
500
This type of erosion happens when the mainland erodes away, creating sea stacks, sea arches, sea caves, and sea cliffs.
What is Wave Erosion?
500

sand dunes are examples of this type of erosion

What is wind erosion?


500

Slowly moving earth down a hillside over time.

What is Soil Creep?

500

Helps determine whether or not your land is fertile.

What is soil texture?

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