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1. What is the difference between mechanical and chemical weathering? 10-1   Mechanical weathering doesn't have any reactions and chemical reacation  
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2. Describe the weathering processes of each chemical weathering agent.   Water is a chemical agent because it can dissolve rocks and other stuff.  
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3. Describe the weathering processes of each mechanical weathering agent.   Mechanical agent is wind because it can blow things around.  
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What is the most important and most common 4.agent of chemical weathering? Why do you think? 10-1   The most common chemical chemical weathering is water because it caan dissolve rocks.  
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5. What is the difference between weathering, abrasion, erosion, and deposition? 10-1   Abrasion is when you grind rocks, erosion is when you chip rocks off, depostion is when sediments land.  
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6. What are the two most important factors in determining the rate of weathering? 10-2   The two most important factors of rate of weathering is wind and water.  
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7. How do hotter temperatures and wet climates affect the rate of weathering?   Hotter tempature is are more humas than other places.  
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8. What are the horizons of a soil profile? What letter represents each horizon? What is found in each horizon? 10-3   Each horizon layer has something special  
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9. What layer of soil would you find the most humus? 10-3   Soil horizon A  
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10. Which horizon does soil formation begin   Bedrock  
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11. List some examples of decomposers and explain why they are important for soil? 10-3   Worms are decoposters because they dig through the earth.  
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12. Which soil horizon layer forms last?   topsoil  
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13. What is humus?   Decomposed Plants and animals  
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14. What is soil?   Soil is something you use to grow crops.  
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15. Which horizon is called the parent material?   Bedrock/horizon R  
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16. What does it mean if soil is fertile?   It's good enough to plant crops  
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17. Compare the particle sizes of sand, clay, and silt   Sand has course grain, clay is fine grain,and silt is no grain  
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18. Why is it good to have permeable soil or rocks?   So it will be fertailzed  
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19. Define soil conservation   When you save soil and don't use much of it  
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20. What are the 5 soil conservation techniques? Describe how each is used to conserve soil. Basic info. 10-4   The five are Terrace farming none plowing.  
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