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weathering
erosion (streams)
soil properties/water cycle
mix up
mash up
100
What is the breakdown of rock called?
What is weathering.
100
What is the transport of sediment called?
What is erosion.
100
What do we call, the ability for water to pass through a substance?
What is permeability.
100
What is the amount of pore space called?
What is porosity.
100
What do we call a rock's ability to hold water?
What is retention
200
What type of weathering is frost wedging?
What is physical weathering.
200
Where does most sediment get deposited in a stream? (Inside of curve, outside of curve or middle of it)
What is the inside of the curve.
200
What is one process that may cause a rise in the water table?
What is precipitation.
200
What factor plays a role in the shape of mountains?
What is the climate.
200
How can we identify that there was a stream in an area?
There is a V-shaped valley, round sediments.
300
What type of climates produce the most type of weathering? (Hint: Think of the temperature and type of humidity).
What is wet and hot.
300
A stream is carrying sand, pebble, silt and clay. What will be the first sized sediment to be dropped off when the velocity decreases?
What is pebble.
300
What is the relationship between particle diameter size and infiltration?
As particle diameter of soil increases, infiltration increases.
300
What is the relationship between particle size and capillarity?
The higher the particle size, the lower the capillarity.
300
What is the relationship between water retention and particle size.
The higher the particle size, the lower the water retention.
400
What might cause a stream to deposit its heaviest object further from the shore?
Having a higher velocity or discharge.
400
Which will have a higher porosity well sorted sediment or poorly sorted sediment?
What is well-sorted.
400
How can we prove a rock was transported by a stream?
It is rounded
400
Which two minerals cleave in 2 directions at right angles?
Pyroxene and potassium feldspar
500
What is one factor that causes limestone to weather more than granite?
What is its mineral composition.
500
What do we define a large amount of rock falling from a mountain (like a landslide) as?
What is mass movement.
500
What might cause soil to increase?
Increase in biological activity.
500
Which metallic mineral, has cubic cleavage and is easy to scratch?
What is galena.
500
Which nonmetallic mineral, that can scratch a streak plate, has fracture, can be used for glass and jewelry.
What is Quartz