Weathering
What type of weathering is associated with acid rain?
Chemical Weathering
What is Erosion?
The MOVEMENT of sediment
Nonrenewable resources are natural resources that can not be what?
Easily replaced
A type of energy that comes from the energy from the Sun?
Solar power
What is deposition?
Where sediment ENDS UP
What does weathering mean?
The BREAKDOWN of rocks into smaller pieces
What it made up of rocks, soil, and dead plants and animals?
Sediment
Oil, Gas, and coal are types of nonrenewable resources that we call what?
fossil fuels
What did we make in class that is used in hydroelectric plants?
Turbines
As sediment moves down a stream it forms loops that we call what?
Meanders
What is formed from weathering and includes rock particles, minerals, and dead organisms, water, and air?
Soil
Mass movement of the land is caused by what?
Gravity
What is formed from algae, small marine organisms, and is also called petroleum?
Oil
What is a downside of using water as a power source?
Little islands that form from deposition at the end of a river is called a what?
Delta
What is the dead organic material called in soil?
Humus
Which type of land mass movement is a slow process?
A creep
What element is used in Nuclear fission?
Uranium
Where does geothermal energy come from?
Under ground, hot spots, near volcanoes
The mixture of sediment and rocks at the end of a glacier is called what?
A till
What are the different layers of soil called?
Horizons
Erosion at a glacier when rocks are picked up is referred to as what?
Plucking
What is the type of nonrenewable resource is formed in a swamp area but then buried underground and formed from dead plants and animals?
Coal
What type of energy uses items that were once living or come from living things (plants, corn, manure, sugar)?
Bioenergy
The sediment and rocks that are moved to the side of a glacier and form a ridge are called what?
A moraine