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Weathering
Weathering and Erosion
Soil
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100
Changing rocks into new substances
What is chemical weathering?
100
One agent of erosion
What is water?
100
Topsoil
What is the first layer of soil?
100
Layers of soil
What is horizons?
100
Dropping of sediment and rocks to a new location
What is deposition?
200
The process of breaking down rocks
What is weathering?
200
The primary force of erosion
What is gravity?
200
Second layer of soil
What is subsoil?
200
Decayed organic material found in soil
What is humus?
200
An area that commonly floods
What is floodplain?
300
Abrasion, exfoliation, frost heaving, frost wedging, hoodoo, and pressure release
What is mechanical weathering?
300
Occurs when rocks rub against each other
What is abrasion?
300
Sediment carried by a stream
What is load?
300
Equal particles of sand, clay, and silt that form fertile soil
What is loam?
400
Acid rain, speleothems, carbonic acid, lichens, oxidation and limestone caves.
What is chemical weathering?
400
Sediment settles according to weight, heaviest drops first causing dispositions to have a look
What is a layer look?
500
Break down of rocks vs. the moving of rock from one place to another
What is the difference between weathering and erosion?
500
Small particles of weathered rocks and minerals
What is sediment?
500
Largest kind of particle found in soil
What is sand?
500
Pile of rocks and soil deposited by a glacier
What is moraine?
500
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