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Soil Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Mechanical Physical Weathering | Ice wedging, water,wind,or gravity abrasion, plant roots, and animal burrowing |
| Chemical Weathering | Acid precipitation, acids in ground water or living things, and oxidation |
| Best weathering climate | wet, humid, and warm climate |
| agents of erosion | water, wind, ice (glaciers), gravity |
| Where deposition occurs | DELTAS |
| soil conservation techniques | crop cover, crop rotation, no-till farming, terracing, and contour plowing |
| Define renewable resource | can be reproduced or recreated in a lifetime or short period of time; typically not limited |
| Define nonrenewable | takes millions of years to form; limited;may run out |
| characteristics of renewable | continuously available (sun,water,wind); doesn't typically run out |
| characteristics of nonrenewable | not always available; limited; millions of years to form (coal, oil,propane, natural gas, uranium) |