Erosion/Deposition
Deposition
What is where the rocks or minerals end up.
Where the Rolling Plains is located
What is North Texas?
Weathering when the rocks or minerals are broken down by chemical reactions.
What is chemical weathering
Erosion
What is the process of pieces of minerals or rocks being transported by natural forces like wind and water.
The time the Dust Bowl lasted.
What is (about) a decade? (10 years)
What government agency prevents erosion of the soil?
What is the Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), formerly known as the Soil Conservation Service (SCS)
Weathering when the rocks or minerals are broken down from physical forces like water freezing in rocks.
What is mechanical weathering?
Can weathering, erosion, and deposition make a landform?
What is yes.
The time it takes for erosion to occur. (To make a landform)
A few days to a couple million years.
The 2 main industries in the Rolling Plains.
What is agriculture and cattle ranching.
At least 5 agents (things) that can cause weathering.
What is water, rocks, minerals, lava, animals, people, and acids. (there is 7 answer choices here but you only needed to answer 5 to get it right.)
What is an agent exclusive to deposition.
What is losing enough energy to stop moving the rocks or minerals.
How much tons of dirt was eroded in the Dust Bowl?
What is 1.2 billion tons
What are at least 3 animals that live in the Rolling Plains. ( can be generalized like,"crabs". But not so generalized like "all crustations". )
Bobwhites
Scaled quail
Mourning doves
Collared peccary
variety of song birds
Waterfowl
Shorebirds
reptiles
amphibians
What happens at the same time as something is weathered.
What is erosion?
The 5 Agents for BOTH deposition and erosion. (what can cause it?)
What is wind, water, ice, gravity, and waves.
At least 3 plants found in the Rolling Plains
As long as if you choose 3 of these, you are correct. Trees: Pecan, Sugarberry, et-leaf Hackberry, Eastern cottenwood, Post oak, Black willow, Silver leaf mountain mahogany, Texas persimmon, Little walnut, Mohr oak, Scaly bark oak, Lance leaf sumac, Desert willow, Shrubs: Chickasaw plum Oklahoma plum, Common chokecherry, Led plant amorpha, False indigo, Sand sage, Agarita, Cenizo, Autumn sage. Succulents: Red yucca, Teddy bear cholla, Prickly pear, Narrow-leaf yucca. Vines: Trumpet-creeper, Old man's beard, Coral honeysuckle, Panhandle grape. Grasses: Western wheatgrass, Big bluestem, Sand big bluestem, Sideoats grama, Blue grama, Hairy grama, Buffalograss, Canada wildrye, Curly mesquite, Texas bluegrass, Burrograss, Indiangrass. Wildflowers:Winecup, Square bud evening primrose, Englemann daisy, Blackfoot daisy, Missouri evening primrose, Pink plains penstemon, Mexican hat, Mealy sage, Copper-mallow, Huisache-daisy Indian blanket, Yellow plainsman, Blue flax, Tahoka daisy, Prarie verbena.
Is it ever possible for weathering and erosion to NOT to happen at the same time.
What is no?