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Erosion and weathering
Soil and bedrock
Cycles in Nature
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100
The part of the atmosphere that shields humans from the sun's harmful rays.
What is the ozone layer
100
This is what Earth's surface features are called.
What are landforms?
100
The part of soil that consists of decaying organic matter
What is humus
100
In the water cycle, heat and sunlight increase the rate of which process?
What is transpiration?
100
This weather formation requires heat and moisture.
What is a hurricane?
200
The process that allows water from lake and river water to enter the atmosphere.
What is evaporation
200
When two of the Earth's tectonic plates collide, this is what is formed?
What is a mountain?
200
This is where soil comes from
What is bedrock
200
Which cycle provides us with oxygen?
What is the Carbon Cycle
200
These types of rocks form under great heat and pressure.
What are metamorphic rocks?
300
The form of energy that powers the water cycle, winds and energy.
What is solar energy
300
This process wears away mountains.
What is weathering?
300
Soil is made of different size particles. This characteristics is its...
What is texture?
300
Evaporation, condensation and precipitation occur during which cycle?
What is the water cycle?
300
These landforms from when running water such as a river erodes rock and soil to form an area.
What is a valley or canyon?
400
The characteristic of weather most likely to cause erosion
What is precipitation
400
This is the process that moves weathered material.
What is erosion?
400
A constantly changing resource made from rock and mineral fragments, organic material and air.
What is soil
400
During respiration, water and carbon dioxide are released to the air. What cycles is respiration a part of?
What is the water and carbon?
500
This is what happens to the atmosphere when a person hikes up a mountain.
What is air pressure decreases and it gets colder
500
These are left when glaciers erode the surrounding land
What is a plateau?
500
These types of scientists love working with soil.
What is an Agronomist
500
This cycle depends on microorganisms to fix it.
What is the Nitrogen cycle?
500
These rocks are most likely to be formed during the formation of this land form.
What are igneous rocks?