chapter 8 key terms
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| What is weathering? | The chemical and physical process that breaks down rock at earth's surface.
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| What is erosion? | The process by which water, ice, wind, or gravity.
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| What is uniformitarianism? | The geologic principal that the same geologic process that operate today operated in the past to change earth's surface.
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| What is mechanical weathing? | The type of weathing in which rock is physically broken into smaller.
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| What is an abrasion? | The grinding away of rock by other rock particles carried in water, ice, or wind.
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| What is ice wedging? | Proces that splits rock when water seeps into cracks, then freezes and expands.
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| What is chemical weathering? | The process that breaks down rock through chemical changes.
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| What is oxidation? | A chemical change in which a substance combines with oxygen, as when iron oxidizes, forming rust.
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| What is permeable? | Characteristics of a material that is full of tiny, connected air spaces that water seeps through.
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| What is soil? | The loose, weathered material on earth's surface in which plants can grow.
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| What is bedrock? | The solid layer of rock beneath the soil.
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| What is humus? | Dark-colored organic material in soil.
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| What is fertilty? | A measurment of how well soil supports plants growth.
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| What is loam? | Rich, fertile soil that is made up of loam about equal parts of clay, sand, and silt.
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| What is soil horizon? | The layer of soil that differs in color and texture from the layers above and below it.
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| What is the topsoil? | Mixture of humus, clay, and other minerals that forms the crumbly, top most layers of soil.
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| What is the subsoil? | The layer of soil beneath the topsoilthat contains mostly clay and other materials
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| What is the litter? | The loose layer of dead plants leaves and stems on the surface of the soil
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| What is a decomposre? | Soil organism that breaks down the remains of organisms and and digest them
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| What is sod? | A thick mass of grass and soil
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| What are natural resoures? | Anything in the enviroment that humans use
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| What is the Dust bowl? | The area of the great plains where wind erosion caused soil loss during the 1930s
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| What is soil conservation? | The management of of soil to prevent its destuction
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| What is contour plowing? | Plowing fields along the curves of a slope to preventsoil loss
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| What is conservation plowing? | Soil plowing method in which the dead stalks from the previous year's crop are left in the ground to hold the soil in place
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