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| What is weathering? | The breaking down of rocks.
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| What is erosion? | The moving of broken down rocks.
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| What is another word for R-horizon? | Bedrock
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| What is another word for A-horizon? | Topsoil
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| What is another word for B-horizon? | Subsoil
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| What is the main cause of mass movement? | Gravity
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| How are rocks classified? | By how they form.
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| How do inegous rocks form? | By the melting and cooling of rocks.
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| How do metamorphic rocks form? | By extreme heat and pressure.
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| How do sedimentary rocks form? | Weathering,erosion
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| What type of rocks can become metamorphic rocks? | Any type!
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| What type of rock can you find fossils in? | Sedimentary
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| What are the ways that geologists find the relative age of rocks? | Index fosils and the law of superposition.
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| Most of earths energy sources come indirectly or directly from the ______. | Sun
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| What are the three types of fossil fuels? | Coal,natural gas,petroleum
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| What are the 5 renewable resources? | Solar,wind,water,biomass,geothermal
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| What is the thinnest layer of earth? | Crust
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| What does a lava lamp represent? | The currents in the asthenophere.
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| What are the 3 plate movements? | Convergent,divergent,transform
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| What are the three stress forces? | Compression,tension,shearing
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| What are the types of mass movement? | Slump creep landslide mud flow.
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| What land forms are created by deposion? | Oxbowlake,deltas,moraines, flood plain,and alluvial fan
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| What makes soil fertal? | Humus.
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| How do ox bow lakes form? | The deposition of broken down rocks.
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| What are the layers of earth? | Crust,mantle,inner and outer core.
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| What is the densest layer of earth? | Inner core.
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| What are the soil horizons from top to bottom? | A-horizon,b-horizon,c-horizon,r-horizon
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| What is the c-horizon made of? | Partialy weathered rock.
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| What are some ways farmers can prevent soil erosion? | Tearncing,windbreaks,notillplowing, cover crops.
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| What is deposition? | When water drops the sediment it is carrying.
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