What's It Mean?
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Soil
Mixed Questioning
Vocabulary
100

The strongest agent of erosion. 

What is water/ moving water?

100
Wind and water can carry sand and small pieces of rock to new locations. True or False
What is True?
100

What type of soil has the smallest grain size? 

What is clay?

100
The dropping of sediment by wind, water, ice, or gravity is _________? 

What is deposition?

100
Small pieces that break off of rocks.
What is sediments?
200

The process by which a rock's composition is changed. 

What is chemical weathering?

200

When rainwater seeps into cracks in rocks and freezes, it expands and causes ___________.

What is frost wedging?

200

Weathering changes Earth's surface...(slowly/quickly)

What is slowly?

200

________ is the decayed remains of plants and animals. 

What is humus?

200

The physical changes of rock being worn down.

What is mechanical weathering?

300
The process by which weathered rock is picked up and moved to a new place.
What is erosion?
300

Many rills over time lead to a ___________.

What is a gully?

300

Deposition causes a ________ to form at the mouth of a river. 

What is a delta?

300

_________________ is a mixture of sand, silt, clay, and humus? 

What is loam?

300

A cave formation that forms from chemical weathering and grows down from the ceiling. 

What is a stalactite?

400
Huge sheets of ice that move slowly over land.
What are glaciers?
400

What type of soil is best for growing plants? 

What is loam?

400

What type of soil has the largest particle size?

What is gravel?

400

________________ is the slow breaking apart or wearing away of rock into smaller pieces. 

What is weathering?

400

____________ is made up of bits of rocks, minerals, humus, air, and water. 

What is soil?

500

The sudden movement of rocks and soil down the side of a hill is a landslide and is caused by___________.

What is gravity?

500

The weakest agent of erosion. 

What is wind?

500

What layer of soil do plants grow best in? 

What is topsoil?

500

________________ is the top horizon and is full of humus. 

What is O?

500

A cave formation that builds from the cave floor by chemical weathering. 

What is a stalagmite?

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