Provinces
The province that we (Ashland) are located in (also the largest province)
What is the Piedmont region
Types of resources reliant on the weather
What are solar and wind?
The movement of soil and rocks from one place to another
What is erosion?
The breakdown or weathering of rocks, minerals, and organic material make this
What is soil?
The Fall line is located between ______ and _____ provinces.
What is the piedmont and coastal plain.
The province with most of our coal deposits
What is the Appalachian plateau
Type of energy generated from falling water
What is hydroelectric energy?
The putting down of sediment by oceans, rivers, or glaciers.
What is deposition?
The ability of soil to hold nutrients
What is fertility?
The layer of soil with the most nutrient rich soil?
Horizon A - topsoil
The province referred to as the "tip of the boot" of Virginia (the province to the far western side of the state)
What is the Appalachian Plateau?
This type of fuel is made from plant and animal remains.
(Also name the 3 we talked about)
What are Fossil Fuels
Coal, Petroleum, Natural Gas
Type of weathering that alters the composition of the rock. Acid rain is an example.
What is chemical weathering?
Type of climate with high soil production
What is temperate climate with moderate temperature and precipitation?
The invention that allows salmon to get upstream and over dams.
What is the salmon cannon?
The province with the youngest rock layers due to weathering, erosion and deposition of the mountains of Virginia. Also has a flat topography.
What is the coastal plain?
The process in which radioactive atoms are split, releasing energy
What is nuclear fission
A physical weathering process that occurs when water freezes and expands in cracks in rocks, causing the cracks to widen and the rock to break apart
What is ice wedging?
Soil with the least permeability in our class soil experiment
What is clay?
True or false. . .The softer the rock, the faster the weathering process.
True
The province where Karst topography is common (sinkholes, caverns, caves)
What is the Valley and Ridge?
This energy resource is non-renewable but not considered a fossil fuel. It produces hazardous waste
What is nuclear?
Weathering is impacted by surface area because the ________ the surface area, the ____________ the weathering.
What is larger , faster OR smaller, slower
The order of the soil particle size from largest to smallest (silt, gravel, sand, clay)
What is gravel, sand, silt, clay
The last layer in the soil horizons with no organic material.
What is horizon R - bedrock