DEFINITIONS
DEFINITIONS
Questions
Questions
NJ ASK REVIEW
100
make minerals rocks and landforms
What is constuctive forces
100
liquid water seeps into cracks of rocks and frezzes
What is frost wedging
100
indicate which action is like mechanical weathering and which is like chemical weathering
What is ripping cardboard- mechanical
100
rivers consist of fresh and salt water. predict the composition
What is the river is "drowned"
100
a soli is good for growing crops. how much of the soil's volume is water and air
What is nearly all
200
breaks down rocks and minerals
What is destuctive forces
200
breaking apart of rock by means of chemical reactions
What is chemical weathering
200
indicate which action is like mechanical weathering and which is like chemical weathering
What is burning the pieces- Chemical weathering
200
Eskers and terminal morains are both ridges of sediment. Explain how the differ
What is stratifiad are left behind after a glacier passes
200
which of the folling compares weathering and erosin
What is weathering breaks rock, erosion moves the rock
300
is the breaking apart of rocks into sediment
What is weathering
300
erosing that pulls sediment from a higher place to a lower place
What is mass wasting
300
describe one difference between mass wasting and other agents
What is mass wasting pulls the sediment
300
why do you think an eagle geologist named such boulders "erratics"
What is because behind big boulders.
300
You see a bridge has turned a reddish-brown from the air. which process does this demonstrate
What is chemical weathering
400
the picking out and moving of sediment
What is erosin
400
powerful agents of both weathering and erosin
What is glaciers
400
what happens to a glacier when it melts quicker than new ice can replace it
What is the glacier melts
400
would you find a lot of humus in a desert region?
What is no because you need water
400
why do geolgolosts consider some glacier process to be destructive
What is glaciers move tons of sediment over great distance
500
the physical break down of rock
What is mechanical weathering
500
laying down of sediment
What is deposition
500
Compare to the teminal moraine that formed more than 800,000 years ago. infer why this is
What is because of weathering
500
what is the differnce between elevation in the highest and lowest point
What is 1111
500
on a contour map, the contour interval represent
What is the distance between two points