Mechanical Weathering
Chemical weathering
Rate of weathering
Soil
fun'ish stuff
100
What are the Three physical processes of Mechanical Weathering.Frost wedging, unloading, Biological activity.
Frost wedging, unloading, Biological activity.
100
What is the most important part of Chemical weathering.
Just Water.
100
Spheroidal weathering is the change of what?
Physical shape of rock as well as its chemical composition.Spheroidal weathering is the change of what?
100
What is the most important factors in soil formation.
Parent material, time, climate, organisms and slope.What is the most important factors in soil formation.
100
What is the largest Civilian airplane in the world?
Antonov An-225 Mriya and was designed to airlift the Energia rocket's boosters and the Buran orbiter for the Soviet space program.
200
What happens when Frost wedging occurs.
Water freezes then expands 9 percent and wedges the rock apart.
200
________ substances react with various minerals.
Dissolved
200
What causes a rock to become spheroidal?
Water enters joints in a rock it weathers the corners and edges even more rapidly.What causes a rock to become spheroidal?
200
The longer soil has been forming the _______ the _______. (soil formation)
Thicker the climate.
200
What was the largest flying machine that ever took to the sky?
LZ 129 Hindenburg 245 m, 200,000 m3 Largest volume aircraft ever flown, and it was 430000 pounds or 215 tons.What was the largest flying machine that ever took to the sky?
300
What happens when unloading occurs.
Through uplift and erosion Igneous rocks are exposed.
300
What does water do when it falls through the atmosphere?
Absorbs carbon dioxide.
300
What cycles does rate of weathering have?
Freeze and thaw cycles.
300
What is then 3 main points of Laterite?
Hot,wet tropical areas,chemical weathering,
300
What belongs to you but others use it more than you do?
your name
400
Name the 6 ways Biological activity can occur.
burrowing animals,decaying animals,Plant roots,Humans making trails, roads,deforestation.
400
After it rains and falls through the atmosphere what does it form?
carbonic acid.
400
What does moisture influence?
vegetation, high temperatures.
400
There are three categories of percentages of what? (soil composition)
Clay, silt, and sand.
400
A woman is sitting in her hotel room when there is a knock at the door. She opened the door to see a man whom she had never seen before. He said "oh I'm sorry, I have made a mistake, I thought this was my room." He then went down the corridor and in the elevator. The woman went back into her room and phoned security. What made the woman so suspicious of the man?
You don't knock on your own hotel door and the man did.
500
In Biological activity ________ _______ produce _________ called _____ that also cause chemical weathering.
decaying animals produce compounds called acids that also cause chemical weathering.
500
Which causes _______, ________ _______, __________, and other silicate rocks and minerals.
Rusting, breaking granite, limestone.
500
There is very slow weathering in ____ _______.
Arid regions.
500
forms in temperature areas that receive more than __ __ of rain a year.
63 cm.
500
I have a name, but it isn't my name. My face shows signs of age. I always mean the same thing, no matter what I say. I'm born in mourning, and I last 'til the end of days. Men plant me, but I never grow. They run from me, but I never move. They look at me and see their future, rotting in the fields where I bloom. What am I?
I'm a Tombstone.
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