Weathering Soil
An accepted and proven truth that other conclusions may be based on.
Principal
A deposit of wind-blown sand.
Sand dune
Stream
A channel through which water is continually flowing downhill.
Water weathers some rocks by?
Dissolving It
Mr. Neal's Favorite Color.
Green
Dark-colored organic material in soil.
Humus
Deflation
The process by which wind removes surface materials.
The flat, wide area of land along a river.
Flood Plain
Gases in the atmosphere cause chemical weathering.
Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide
What is an adjective?
Adjectives are words that describe the qualities or states of being of noun
Erosion
The process by which water, ice, wind, or gravity moves weathered particles of rock and soil.
Deposition
Process in which sediment is laid down in new locations.
Delta
A landform made of sediment that is deposited where a river flows into an ocean or lake.
Rocks that are cracked or split in layers have undergone?
Mechanical Weathering
Sacramento
The capital of California
Componet
The individual objects or parts that combine or work together to form a whole.
A wind-formed deposit made of fine particles of clay and silt.
Loess
A stream or river that flows into a larger river.
Tributary
Mechanical weathering usually happens ______ over very long periods of time.
Gradually
Name four colleges in the State of North Carolina
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The loose, weathered material on Earth’s surface in which plants can grow.
Soil
Any one of several processes by which gravity moves sediment downhill.
Mass Movement
Water that fills the cracks and spaces in underground soil and rock layers.
Groundwater
_______ and farming, also cause mechanical weathering.
Mining
School Michael Jordan attended.
University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
The process that breaks down rock through chemical changes.
Chemical weathering
Having some of the same characteristics or features as something else.
Similar
To grow or evolve naturally.
Develop
Weathering and erosion can take ________ of years to break down and wear away huge mountains
Millions
34 x 51
1,751
The geologic principle that the same geologic processes that operate today operated in the past to change Earth’s surface.
Uniformitarianism
Small, solid pieces of material that come from rocks or the remains of organisms; earth materials deposited by erosion.
Sediment
A wide, sloping deposit of sediment formed where a stream leaves a mountain rang
Alluvial Fan
Humans escalate chemical weathering by burning?
Fossil Fuels.
Mr. Thompson drew a rectangle on the chalkboard with a length to width ratio of 5 to 2. He asked students to draw a rectangle with the same ratio of length to width in their journals. Audrey plans to draw a rectangle with a width of 6 centimeters.
15
The type of weathering in which rock is physically broken into smaller pieces.
Mechanical Weathering
Significant
The degree to which one action influences or affects another action.
Water that flows over the ground surface rather than soaking into the ground.
Runoff
_______ refers to the wearing away of rock by rock particles carried by water, ice, wind, or gravity.
Abrasion
Write an equation with a variable for this problem: 4 friends go to the movies. They each buy a ticket that costs the same. They spend a total of 24 dollars. What is the equation?
4x=24