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Science quiz on the 8th in October (realative Dating)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is horizon Number 1? Describe: | Humus: Parts of soil made up of dead plants and animals |
| What is horizon Number 2? Describe: | Top soil: contains a lot of humus, many small plants or animals |
| What is Horizon Number 3? Describe: | Subsoil: Does not have a lot of Humus but has small rocks. |
| What is horizon Number 4? Describe: | Bedrock: soild rock, most of the small rocks from the upper layer comes from bedrock |
| What are different types of soil? | over 70,000 different types of soil in the united states |
| What is 4 types you can determend soil by: | color, porisity, size of rocks in them, different minerals |
| 4 types of soil: | sand, clay (smallest particles), silt (combo of clay and sand), loam (humus, sand ilt and clay) |
| what is index fossils: | used to show the approxitmate age of rocks |
| what is soil: | mixture of small pieces of inorganic rock, minerals, organic compounds living organisms air and water |
| what is compounds: | living organisms air and water |
| what is unconformity: | rock layers that are not in their natural form happens of water wind glaciers no deposition occuring in the area and earthquakes |