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Rock Vocabulary
Types of Rocks
Soil Vocabulary
Soil Classification
Wild Card
100
A substance you find naturally in rocks. It is soild.
What is a mineral?
100
These are the three types of rocks.
What is Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic?
100
Remains of decaying plants and animals.
What is humus?
100
Gives soil a rough texture.
What is sand?
100
This is created when water dissolves underground rocks.
What are sinkholes?
200
It is a solid made of minerals or other substances.
What are rocks?
200
This type of rock is made from sediment.
What is Sedimentary rock?
200
A layer of soil.
What is a horizon?
200
Gives soil a smooth texture.
What is clay?
200
Plants, waves, and wind contribute to what processes that shape landforms.
What is weathering and erosion?
300
The process of moving sediment.
What is erosion?
300
These rocks have been changed by high temperature and pressure.
What is Metamorphic rock?
300
Solid rock that forms earth's bottom horizon.
What is bedrock?
300
This is added to soil to supply nutrients essential to the growth of plants.
What is fertilizer?
300
An example of this would be a rotting squirrel.
What is humus?
400
The sequence of events that change rocks from one type to another over long periods of time.
What is the rock cycle?
400
A type of rock that forms when melted rock cools and reforms.
What is Igneous rock?
400
Largest soil particle.
What is sand?
400
These are the four properties of soil classification.
What is texture, thickness, color, and size?
400
This is created when two plates come together and push against each other.
What are mountains?
500
Breaking down of rock on Earth's surface into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
500
This causes rocks in a river to break down and become smooth.
What is running water?
500
Smallest soil particle?
What is clay?
500
What are three particles that are found in soil that give it its size?
What is clay, silt, and sand?
500
This is the lowest layer in soil.
What is bedrock?