Weathering
The breaking down of rock into smaller parts/pieces is know as what?
What is Weathering?
The removal and transportation of sediments is know as what?
What is Erosion?
The decayed organic matter in the soil
What is Humus?
True or false lava only ever reaches the surface through the eruption of a a volcano
What is false?
When plates are moving toward one another
What is Converging
A wet example of both mechanical and chemical weathering...
What is water?
Hot and Cold these move rocks
What is water and ice
These rock particle sizes make up all the rock in soil
What is Sand, Silt, and Clay
True or false magma and lava is different at different parts of the world.
What is true
When plates are moving farther apart
What is diverging
The three forms of chemical weathering...
What is Hydrolysis, Oxidation, and Carbonation
Landslides, Mudflows, Slump, and Creep are all forms of this kind of erosion.
What is Mass Wasting (Gravity)?
Soil composition is...
25% Air, 25% Water, 45% Rocks/Minerals, and 5% Organic Matter
These are the three kinds of volcanoes
What are shield, strata, and cinder
Convection in the Earth core is responsible for this portion of Plate Tectonics.
What is continental drift.
This organism pair of algae and fungi use oxalic acid to chemically break down rock.
What is Lichen?
Creeping, Saltation, and Suspension are both forms of particle movement powered by ______and______.
What is wind and water?
A soil profile's horizons from top to bottom
What are O (humus) A (topsoil) E (Eluviated Horizon) B (Subsoil) C (Parent Material) R (Bedrock)?
Volcanoes occur on these divergent boundaries
What are mid-ocean ridges?
The creation of islands/land not found on the edge of a plate.
What is mid plate hotspots/magma plumes
The five types/forces of mechanical weathering
What are: ice wedging, Contraction & Expansion, Abrasion, Plants, and Animal Action
Melt water at the base of the glacier enters cracks in the bedrock and re-freezes, causing the rock to break apart.
What is Plucking?
The meaning of CORPT (The five factors of soil formation)
Climate, Organisms, Relief, Parent Material, Time
Volcanoes occur on these convergent boundaries where
Oceanic plate subducts beneath either another oceanic or continental plate.
Continental plate is made up of this light colored (pink, white and gray) and low density rock type composed almost entirely of silicates.
What is granite.