Vocabulary
What are Mines?
Measurement of acidity or basic level of a substance
What is PH level?
Layers of the soil
What is Horizons
Type of rock made from pressure.
What is sedimentary?
A nonliving natural resource that is made up of one or more minerals.
What are ROCKS
Organic material in the soil is called
What is Humus
Very top layer of soil?
What is a Organic Matter
Rock that is made from heat
What is igneous?
A nonliving natural resource that contains decayed plants and animals, weathered rocks, minerals, and living things.
What is SOIL
Attracted to certain metals and opposed to similar charges
What is Magnetic
Nutrients that is only found in geosphere and biosphere (not atmosphere).
What is phosphorus?
The layer that holds mostly minerals and organic matterial
What is a topsoil
Type of rock made from heat and pressure.
What is metamorphic?
These have a definite chemical composition and occur naturally.
What are minerals?
Nutrients that is mostly found in the atmosphere.
What is Nitrogen?
Layer with rocks/mineral and barely any organic material
What is a subsoil?
Scale that measures hardness of rock or mineral
What is Moh's scale.
Something that is not alive but is found in nature and is useful to humans- gas and oil are examples
What is a Nonliving Natural Resource?
Property found when substance is scrapped or scratch, and damage is looked at
What is streak?
Nutrients that is mostly found in the geosphere biosphere, and the atmosphere.
What is Carbon?
Layer that has large rocks, not yet broken down.
What is bedrock or Parent Rock?
This breaks down rocks into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?