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What Does It Mean?
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Soil
Vocabulary
100
The breaking down of rock on Earth's surface into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
100
Wind and water can carry sand and small pieces of rock to new locations. True or False
What is True?
100
Volcanoes change Earth's surface...(slowly/quickly)
What is quickly?
100

What are the two different types of weathering?

chemical and mechanical 

100
Small pieces that break off of rocks.
What is sediments?
200
Mountains and other surface features of the land.
What are landforms?
200
When rainwater seeps into cracks in rocks and __________, it expands and causes the rock to split apart.
What is freezes?
200
Weathering changes Earth's surface...(slowly/quickly)
What is slowly?
200

what is bedrock?

bedrock is the solid layer of rock beneath the soil. 

200
Gigantic formations of ice that do not completely melt over the course of a year.
What is a glacier?
300
The process by which weathered rock is picked up and moved to a new place.
What is erosion?
300
Weathering over long periods of time breaks rock into ____________ pieces. (larger or smaller)
What is smaller?
300
Erosion can change the shape of the land faster than a volcano can. True or False.
What is False?
300

what is decaying organic material in soil?

humus

300
A growing pile of deposited sediment at the mouth of a river.
What is a delta?
400

when a sea arch collapse what is it called?

sea stack

400
Fast flowing rivers can pick up and carry rocks (far/short) distances.
What is far?
400
Water can weather rock by: A. eroding soil B. by freezing and melting
What is freezing and melting?
400

how many different horizons do we have in the soil? Name them.

3.

topsoil, subsoil, bedrock

400
Large piles of sediment that are leftover from glaciers when they melt.
What are moraines?
500
The sudden movement of rocks and soil down the side of a hill because of gravity and rain.
What is a landslide?
500

when the ice melts it turns into which earth system?

hydrosphere 

500

what are the two processes by which glaciers erode on the land? 

plucking and abrasion 

500

How can organisms increase the soil fertility?

animal waste contribute nutrients to the soil.

500

retreating or melting glaciers are called what? 

kettles?