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Name all the types of mechanical weathering (pls do in order or its wrong) frost wedging, frost heaving, pressure release, exfoliation, abrasion, hoodoos
Name the 3 types of rock(pls do the stuff in order and put rock at end of word pls) sedimentary rock, igneous rock, metamorphic rock
What are the causes of weathering?(do in order)Name why they cause weathering plants cause sprouting seeds and roots to crack rock, animals cause burrows, underground dens, catastrophies cause fires, flood, and hurricanes
What is chemical weathering? rocks changing into different substances
Name all of the types of chemical weathering oxidation and reactions of acids
How is Carbonic acid made? carbon dioxide is disolved in water
How is acid rain made? when sulfer dioxide combines with water to form sulferic acid
What is a lichen? an organism that grow on rocks and secrete mild acids
How are caves made? formed by wind, crashing waves, running water, or acidic water
Name all of the caves parts stalacites, stalagmites, columns, spelleothems, and spelunkers
What is soil the loose material on the Earth's surface
Name all the sand particles sand, silt, clay
What is texture? how much of each particles there are
What is loam? fertile soil with each type of particle
Name all of the horizons O horizons, A horizon/ topsoil, B horizon/ subsoil, C horizon, R horizon/ regolith
What is erosion? movement of weathered material from one place to another
Name the agents of weathering gravity, water, wind, ice
What is the wind agent and Ice agent? wind is the blowing weathered material, ice is the glaciers moving lare amounts of material
Name the mass movements soil creep, earth flow, mud flow, rock slide, and avalanche
What is a load? sediment carried by a stream
Name the 2 types of loads dissolved and suspended load
What is an area that commonly floods called? floodplain
What is a delta? the area at the mouth of the river
What is caves and sandbars? caves are carved out by water and sandbars are form by sand deposits
Beach erosion can cause what? building destruction
What is deflation? wind picking up and moving sediment
What makes duststorms and sandstorms? silt, clay, and sand
What is piles of sand? sandbars
What is a glacier? unmelted snow turning into ice making layers; huge formations
What is gouging cuts underneath the glacier on the ground
What is plucking? glaciers pulling big pieces of bedrock with them
What is a moraine when a glacier melts and leaves soil and rock
Bonus:Causes of erosion natural processes:Gods plan for the earth and man made causes: industry land development
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