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Dirty Job
Wet
Weathering and Erosion
Tough Ones
Even Tougher Ones
100
Largest particle of soil
What is sand?
100
An area that commonly floods
What is floodplain?
100
Changes rocks into new substances
What is Chemical Weathering?
100
Equal parts of sand, clay and silt make fertile soil known as
What is loam?
100
the terms that apply to Mechanical Weathering
What is abrasion, exfoliation, frost heaving, frost wedging, hoodoo and pressure release?
200
Small particles of weathered rocks and minerals
What is sediment?
200
Sediment carried by a stream
What is load?
200
The process of breaking down rocks
What is weathering?
200
When unmelted snow gets compacted down into ice it forms this
What is glacier?
200
The terms that are associated with Chemical Weathering
What is acid rain, carbonic acid, lichens, limestone caves, oxidation and speleothems?
300
Layers of soil
What is a horizon?
300
Dropping of sediment and rocks in a new location
What is deposition?
300
Occurs when rocks rub against each other
What is abrasion?
300
One is breaking down rocks and the other is moving the material to a different location.
What is the difference between weathering and erosion?
300
The last layer in the horizons
What is bedrock or horizon R?
400
The amount of each kind of particle in a soil sample
What is Texture?
400
An area of sediment at the mouth of a river
What is delta?
400
One agent of erosion
What is water?
400
Settlement settling according to weight, forces the heaviest drops of sediment to fall first and the lighter sediment to drop last.
What causes deposition to have a layered look?
400
Under the topsoil
What is subsoil?
500
Decayed organic material found in soil
What is Humus?
500
A pile of rocks and soil deposited by a glacier
What is moraine?
500
Primary force behind erosion
What is gravity?
500
The horizons where most plants grow
What is topsoil?
500
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