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Soil
Soil, Soil, Soil
Soil Fertility
Rock Cycle
Rock Vocabulary
100
What are the 3 layers of soil?
Topsoil, Subsoil, Bedrock.
100
What is the difference between rocks and minerals? a. Rocks are bigger. b. Minerals are shiny. c. Rocks are made up of two or more minerals and minerals have their own characteristics. d. Rocks are alive and minerals are not.
Answer is C
100

The type of soil conservation that involves leaving last years' crops on the field.

What is conservation plowing?

100

The three categories all rocks can be put into.

What are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic?

100

This word means "resulting from or produced from fire."

What is Igneous?

200

This is the top layer of soil and plant and animal matter can be found here.

Topsoil (Note: Humus is the dead organic matter so that is a good answer, too)

200
What is a source of erosion? a. Water c. Wind b. People d. All of the above
Answer is D
200

Rocks are made up of one or more of this inorganic substance

What are minerals?

200

This is how rocks on the surface get pushed into the Earth's core.

What is pressure?

200

"Made from sediment" is the definition of what word?

"Made from sediment" is the definition of what word?

300

This type of soil is a fairly even mix of the 3 types of soil particles.

Loam (contains approximately equal parts sand, silt and clay)

300

What causes weathering? a.Wind b.Ice c.Plants d.Animals e.Chemicals f.All of the above g.None of the above

Answer is F

300
contains plant and animal matter
humus
300

A rock that was sediment, then went under pressure, then was melted down and crystalized or cooled inside a volcano is this type of rock.

What is a igneous rock?

300

Metamorphic rocks get their name also from the latin word morph, meaning this.

What is "form" or "to change"?

400
The bottom layer of soil. It is made up of layers of rocks. No plants or animals can live here.
Bedrock
400

What is an example of chemical weathering. 

What is acid rain, water, oxidation?

400

The management of Earth's resources. 

What is Earth's stewardship?

400
True or False: Soil from different places contain different amounts of components?
True
400

Sedimentary rocks get there name from this, the substance they are made of.

What is sediment?

500
A mixture of rock and soil. Only large tree roots can grow at this level.
Subsoil
500
When rock is physically altered from larger pieces to smaller pieces 

What is weathering?

500
The measurement of how well the soil supports plant growth.

What is soil fertility?

500

What process creates metamorphic rocks?

What is heat & pressure?

500

The movement of sediment.

What is erosion?