Vocabulary
Physical or Chemical?
Soil
Agents of Erosion and Deposition
Glaciers
100
This is the movement of sediment
What is erosion?
100
What is physical weathering?
100
Soil horizon found on top of the profile. Has most organic matter.
What is the O horizon?
100
This agent of erosion is commonly seen as creeks or rivers.
What is water?
100
What is a valley glacier?
200
This is the breaking down of rock through physical or chemical means.
What is weathering?
200
What is chemical weathering?
200
Soil Horizon letter that represents the bedrock
What is the R horizon?
200
This agent of erosion lifts sediments into the air, dropping them again after it slows down.
What is wind?
200
What is a drumlin?
300
This is the term used to describe small bits of rock
What is sediment?
300
What is physical weathering?
300
Climate, Organisms, Relief, Parent Material & Time
What are the five main factors that impact soil development?
300
One of the most powerful agents of erosion and deposition, this agent is capable of moving large boulders over great distances and commonly occurs as glaciers.
What is ice?
300
What is a kettle/kettle lake?
400
This is when eroded sediment is dropped
What is deposition?
400
What is physical weathering?
400
Located between the A horizon (topsoil) and the B horizon (subsoil) and is called the eluviation layer.
What is the E horizon?
400
This agent of deposition is responsible for sudden landslides and waterfalls.
What is gravity?
400
What is are karnes?
500
These are the two types of glaciers
What are valley and continental?
500
What is chemical weathering?
500
The regolith or partly weathered rock layer of soil.
What is the C horizon?
500
These are the four major agents of erosion and deposition.
What are wind, water, ice, and gravity?
500
What is a moraine? (Till could also be correct)