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Soils
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Rocks
Plate Tectonics
Mixing it up
100
Increases the soil's ability to retain water.
What is humus?
100
drier areas that have grasses and brush vegetation.
What is pedocal?
100
Rocks that form when lava hardens.
What is igneous?
100
The continents sit on these.
What are plates?
100
At a convergent boundary, you can get a volcano and this.
What is a trench?
200
layer of rock and mineral fragments
What is regolith?
200
hot, wet tropical areas.
What is laterite?
200
Rocks that form when magma hardens beneath Earth's surface.
What is intrusive igneous?
200
The edges of tectonic plates are called this.
What are boundaries?
200
The use of aerosols and other CFC's depletes this.
What is ozone?
300
True or False: Soil water provides the moisture needed for chemical reactions.
What is True?
300
The transfer of rock and soil downslope is due to gravity.
What is a mass movement?
300
melted material at Earth's surface.
What is the magma?
300
There are this many major plates.
What is 7?
300
This part of a location is based on day to day observations of temperature and outdoor conditions.
What is weather?
400
This has the greatest influence on soil formation.
What is climate?
400
The part of regolith that supports the growth of plants.
What is soil?
400
rocks that form when lava hardens.
What is extrusive igneous rocks?
400
This is the largest plate.
What is pacific?
400
In this layer of the atmosphere thunderstorms occur.
What is the troposphere?
500
Plant material, time, slope, organisms, and climate.
What are factors important in soil formation?
500
a vertical section through all of the soil horizons.
What is the soil profile?
500
the meaning of the Latin word ignis
What is fire?
500
This boundary is a major source of earthquakes.
What is transform?
500
This element will produce energy without polluting the atmosphere, while burning coal can increase CO2 in the atmosphere.
What is uranium?