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The process that involves the physical or chemical breakdown of materials on earth’s surface

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Weathering

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A mixture of weathered rock, organic matter, water, and air that is capable of supporting plant life

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Soil

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The removal of surface material through the process of weathering

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Erosion

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As rocks weather, erosional agents like water, ice, wind, and gravity move eroded materials from one place to another in a process called…

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Sediment transport

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When the erosional agent slows down or melts , it drops this sediment load in a process called…

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Deposition

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The land area that gathers water for a major river

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Drainage basin

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The movement of water parallel to the shoreline

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Longshore current

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Weathering

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The process of physical or chemical breakdown of materials on Earth’s surface

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Do rocks weather at the same rate?

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No

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What are the two main factors that determine how fast a rock will weather?

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Rock type and landscape

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What are the two types of weathering?

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Mechanical and chemical

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What type of change happens with mechanical weathering?

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Physical changes

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What type of change happens with chemical weathering?

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Chemical

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What are the 3 specific types of mechanical weathering?

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Frost wedging, biological activity, and collision

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What causes frost wedging?

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When water collects in the cracks of rocks and freezes

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What is the cycle called during frost wedging?

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Freeze-Thaw Cycles

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What causes biological activity?

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Plant and animal activity

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What causes weathering during collisions?

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When rocks fall from a cliff or tumble through turbulent rivers

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What are the 2 types of chemical weathering caused by?

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Oxygen and water

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What is the chemical process called this is caused by oxygen?

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Oxidation

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What is the chemical process called that is caused by water?

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Hydrolysis

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What is parent material?

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The material from which soil forms

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What are soil horizons?

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The different layers of soil

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How many soil horizons are there?

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6

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True or false. All soils contain every soil horizon.
False
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What are the specific soil horizons?
O, A, E, B, C, and R
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What does the first soil horizon contain?
Organic material
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What is the 2nd horizon mostly made of?
Minerals
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Which layer does leaching occur?
Horizon E
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Which horizon collects materials from previous horizons?
Horizon B
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Which layer is partially weathered bedrock?
Horizon C
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Which layer is unweathered bedrock?
Horizon R
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Which soil horizons make up the topsoil?
O and A
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Which soil horizons make up the subsoil?
E and B
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Which soil horizons make up the true soil?
O A B E
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What is the difference between weathering and erosion?
Weathering is the breakdown of materials and erosion is the removal of surface material
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If the slope of a river decreases, what will happen to the speed of the river?
The speed will decrease
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What are tributaries?
Small streams that flow into larger rivers
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What is a drainage basin?
Land area that gathers water for a major river
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What is a drainage divide?
A boundary that separates distinct drainage basins
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What does water flowing downhill eroding earth's surface create?
Channels
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Why are young rivers V-shaped?
Fast movement
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Wide rivers with smooth and gentle slopes are
Mature
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What type of land form is created when rivers flood and drop their sediment load?
Flood plains
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What is a fan shaped sediment deposit that forms at the mouth of a river called?
Deltas
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What are distributaries
Branching channels created by deltas
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What are the two types of glaciers?
Valley and Continental
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Where do valley glaciers form?
High mountainous regions
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Where do continental glaciers form?
Colder climates that occupy large land areas
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Where are the two continental glaciers located?
Greenland and Antarctica
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What is a cirque?
A bowl shaped basin
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What is an arete?
Long sharp ridgeline between valley glaciers
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What is a horn in a mountainous region?
Sharpened peaks
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What shape of valley do valley glaciers form?
U-shaped valleys
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What are tributary glaciers?
Small glaciers that feed into large glaciers
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What type of valley do tributary glaciers form?
Hanging valleys
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On which side of a sand dune does erosion occur?
Windward side
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What side of a sand dune does deposition occur?
Leeward side
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What is deflation
The removal of small particles by wind
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What is desert pavement?
The remaining surface when all small particles are removed
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The shape and sizes of land forms eroded by wind depends on what?
Wind speed amount of time the wind blows sediment supply
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What are three land forms created by wave erosion?
Coastal cliffs Sea arches Sea stacks
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What are two land forms created by land deposition?
Sand bar and sand spits
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What are some things that can cause mass wasting?
Snow, heavy rains, earthquakes, or human activity
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What are some examples of mass wasting?
Rock slides mudflows landslides
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What percent of water on Earth is salt water?
97%
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What percentage of water on Earth is freshwater?
3%
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Where is the majority of freshwater found?
In glaciers
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Where is the smaller percentage of freshwater found?
Lakes, rivers, and as ground water
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What is precipitation?
When water vapor in the air cools and condenses (rain, snow, sleet, and hail)
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What is a runoff?
Where water runs off the land surface
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What is infiltration?
The process by which water enters earth and becomes ground water
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What is transpiration?
When plants release water vapor into the atmosphere through their leaves
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What is evaporation?
When water enters the atmosphere as water vapor
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What is condensation?
When water vapor collides with other water vapor molecules to form water droplets
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What is the water cycle?
Water on the land that evaporates into the air and eventually makes its way back onto land
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What is an unsaturated zone for groundwater storage?
A porous area where water passes through
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What is a saturated zone for groundwater storage?
Where water completely fills the pore space
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What is a water table?
The upper boundary of the saturated zone
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What does it mean if sediment is permeable?
Water can infiltrate through it easier
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What is an aquifer?
a rock unit that can transfer water through its pore space
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What is the name of the Great Plains Aquifer?
Ogallala Aquifer
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How many states does the Great Plains Aquifer run through?
8
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What are the names of the states that the Great Plains Aquifer runs through?
South Dakota, Wyoming, Nebraska, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas
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What is an aquitard?
It keeps water confined
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How are water springs formed?
Where water tables naturally meet Earth's surface?
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What is an artesian well?
Wells drilled into pressurized aquifers
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What is a cone of depression?
The direction of the water flows down toward the well
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The process of assigning an exact numerical age to an organism, an object,or event.
Absolute dating
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The process of placing objects or events in their proper order in time.
Relative dating
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States that the laws of nature operate today as they have in the past.
Uniformitarianism
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States that in an undisturbed sequence of sedimentary rock layers, the youngest rocks will be at the top and the oldest rocks will be at the bottom.
Principle of superposition
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Gaps in the rock record during which either erosion occurred or deposition was absent
Unconformity
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The remains or traces of organisms found in the geologic rock record.
Fossil

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