Soil Profile
The upper layer of soil that contains the greatest amount of minerals and nutrients.
What is topsoil?
The process in which rocks are broken down.
What is weathering?
The thickest layer of earth that is composed of both liquid and solid.
What is the mantle?
The study of how the earth's plates interact.
What is Plate Tectonics?
Occurs when two plates slide past one another.
What are transform boundaries?
The lowest layer of soil made of solid rock.
What is bedrock?
The breakdown of large pieces of rocks into smaller pieces.
What is physical weathering?
The coolest and thinnest layer of the earth.
What is the crust?
The place plates interact.
What are boundaries?
The lithosphere is broken up into large pieces.
What are plates?
The second layer of soil containing fewer nutrients.
What is subsoil?
The process in which rocks are formed into new materials.
What is chemical weathering?
The crust and upper mantle of the earth.
What is the lithosphere?
Earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions are cause by this.
What is plate movement?
Earthquakes and faults will occur here.
What are transform boundaries?
The horizontal layers of soil material.
What is strata?
Physical weathering is often caused by these two processes.
What are temperature and pressure?
The earth's hottest layer with the most pressure.
What is the inner core?
The mantle contains currents that causes this.
What is the magnetic field?
The pulling away of lithospheric plates form volcanos.
What are divergent boundaries?
Healthy soil contains a nutrient-rich material made of decayed plant and animal matter.
What is humus?
Chemical weathering is caused by this process.
What is carbonation?
The earth's magnetic field is made up of convection currents that occur here.
What is the outer core?
The movement of hot magma rising and cold magma sinking.
What are convection currents?
Plates push against one another forming mountains.
What are convergent boundaries?