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Just Coffee
Coffee Beans
Rocky Road
Down by the Old Millstream
Did someone say coffee?
100
This type of acid is found in ordinary rain and forms when water and carbon dioxide are mixed.
What is carbonic acid
100
Ice forming underneath a rock can push it further out of the ground.
What is frost heaving
100
The amount of each kind of particle in a soil sample
What is texture?
100
An area of sediment at the mouth of a river.
What is a delta?
100
Changes rocks into new substances.
What is chemical weathering?
200
This is the most common type of oxidation.
What is rust.
200
A shift in the ground around a rock can reduce the pressure and cause the rocks to expand rapidly.
What is pressure release.
200
The largest kind of particle in soil
What is sand?
200
The dropping of sediment and rocks in a new location.
What is a deposition?
200
The process of breaking down rocks.
What is weathering?
300
These are 2 common types of chemical weathering.
What are oxidation and reaction of acids?
300
Ice forms in the rock and splits the rock apart.
What is frost wedging?
300
Small particles of weathered rocks and minerals.
What is sediment?
300
The sediment carried by a stream
What is load?
300
A fertile soil formed from equally evident particles of sand, clay, and silt.
What is loam?
400
Like it, or not, these organisms grow on rocks and cause chemical weathering
What are lichens?
400
Occurs when sheets of rock peel away like layers of an onion.
What is exfoliation?
400
Decayed organic material found in soil.
What is humus?
400
An area that commonly floods.
What is a floodplain?
400
The primary force behind erosion.
What is gravity?
500
A formation caused by harder weathered rock on the top and softer weathered rock on the bottom.
What is hoodoo?
500
Occurs when rocks rub against each other
What is abrasion?
500
Layers of soil
What are horizons?
500
A pile of rocks deposited by a glacier.
What is a moraine?
500
Forms when unmelted snow gets compacted down into ice.
What is a glacier?