Earth's Surface 1
Where most of Earth's liquid water is.
What is the Ocean?
Rock particles wear away rock
What is Abrasion?
A measure of the steepness of a river.
What is Gradient?
Wind creates these when they slow down and deposit materials.
What are Dunes?
Dark colored substance in soil from decayed organic material
What is Humus?
Protects living things from UV rays from the sun.
What is the Atmosphere?
The processes where rock is physically broken down into smaller pieces by abrasion
What is Physical Weathering?
When materials are dropped out of wind and water.
What is Deposition?
Quick acting agents of erosion and deposition.
What are Glaciers?
Measure of how well soil supports plant growth
What is Fertility?
Sphere's interacting when a gopher burrows underground.
What is the Biosphere AND the Geosphere?
A form of chemical weathering that requires oxygen
What is Oxidation?
Caused by erosion of sea caves.
What are Sea Arches?
When water loosens soil and allows it to move freely.
What is Creep?
Loose mixture of rock particles, minerals, decayed organic material, air and water in which plants grow
What is Soil?
All of the matter, energy and processes within Earth's boundary.
What is Earth's system?
Are agents of both chemical and physical weathering.
What are Plants (or Water)?
What is Acids in Groundwater?
This is term related to glaciers is equivalent to Load?
What is Glacial Drift?
This horizon is below topsoil consisting of clay and other particles washed down from topsoil, but little humus
What is B Horizon?
Matter and energy moving between Earth's spheres
What is How Earth's spheres interact?
An agent of chemical weathering found in the atmosphere and geosphere
What is Acid?
Two main factors affecting coastline erosion.
What are Wave Energy AND rock hardness?
This reduces the desert pavement formation?
What is Vegetation or Plants?
Solid layer of rock beneath the soil
Bedrock
The two most abundant gases in the atmosphere
What are Nitrogen AND Oxygen?
Main difference in physical and chemical weathering.
What is a Change in Rock Composition?
This word explains the main difference between Alluvial Fans and Deltas.
What is Location?
This word defines the main difference between Creep and Mudslide
What is Time?
Topsoil