Weathering
The breakdown of Earth's crust into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
The carrying away of rock and soil to another location.
What is erosion?
The dropping of sediment, soil, and rock in a new location.
What is deposition?
The top most layer of soil that you see when you dig in your yard.
What is topsoil?
This type of weathering includes the causes of freezing and thawing, plant roots, pressure, animal actions, human actions, and abrasion.
What is mechanical or physical weathering?
The #1 cause of erosion is this.
What is water?
Landforms created when wind continuously picks up sand and moves it around.
The flat place near a river that floods easily.
What is a floodplain?
The name for the dead substances found in soil that make it full of nutrients and good for planting.
What is organic?
The type of weathering that causes an actual change in the make up or composition of the material.
What is chemical weathering?
Slow moving water will carry this.
What are small rocks and soil or sediment.
Stalactites and stalagmites are actually forms of deposition from this.
What is groundwater?
The landform that is fan-shaped but appears at the end of a river when a river flows into another body of water dropping sediment and forming new land.
What is a delta?
The most important factor in the formation of soil.
What is climate?
When rock is broken by wind, water, glaciers or gravity when there is rubbing or friction.
What is abrasion?
Groundwater erosion are responsible for creating these unique land forms.
What are caves or caverns?
Kames, kettles, morraines, and eskers are landforms created by the deposition of this.
What is a glacier?
The part of a river that curves because the water flow is slower and less forceful.
What is a meander?
When water can flow through the soil because there are large spaces between the soil particles.
What is permeable?
Weathering, erosion, and deposition all affect this Earth's sphere especially.
What is the geosphere?
When a sea arch erodes and breaks it forms this.
What is a sea stack?
Mudflows and landslides are due to deposition caused by this.
What is gravity?
The landform that is fan-shaped but appears on land.
What is an alluvial fan?
Strip cropping, no till planting, windbreaks, contour farming, and cover crops are examples of this.
What is soil loss prevention?