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Chapter 27 Flashcards

1
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The process that involves the physical or chemical breakdown of material on Earth’s surface

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Weathering

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2
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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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3
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The removal of surface material through the process of weathering.

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Erosion

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4
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As rocks weather, erosional agents like water, ice, wind, and gravity move eroded materials from one place to another.

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Sediment Transport

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5
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When the erosional agent slows down (in the case of water, wind, or gravity) or melts (in the case of glaciers), it drops this sediment load.

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Deposition

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6
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The land area that gathers water for a major river

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Drainage Basin

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7
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The movement of water parallel to the shore line

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Long-shore Current

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8
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What is weathering

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

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9
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Do rocks weather at the same rate

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No Cause they weather at different rates

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10
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what are the two main factors that determine how fast a rock will weather

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Rock Type

Landscape

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11
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What are the two types of weathering

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Mechanical

Chemical

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12
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what type of change happens with Mechanical weathering

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Physical changes

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13
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what type of change happens with chemical weathering

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Chemical Changes

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14
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what are the 3 specific types of mechanical weathering

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Frost wedging
Biological activity
Collisions

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15
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what causes frost wedging

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When water collects in the cracks of a rock and freezes

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16
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what is the cycle called during frost wedging

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Freeze-Thaw Cycles

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17
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what causes biological activity

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Plants and Animals

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18
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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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19
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what is soil

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

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20
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what is parent material

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The material from which soil forms

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21
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what are soil horizons

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Different layers of soil

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22
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how many soil horizons are there

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6

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23
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True or False. All soils contain every soil horizon

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False

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24
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what are the specific soil horizons

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O,A,E,B,C,R

25
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what does the first soil horizon contain

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Organic material

26
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what is the second horizon mostly made up of

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Mostly minerals

27
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which layer does leaching occur

A

E

28
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which horizon collects materials from previous horizons

A

B

29
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which layer is partially weathered bedrock

A

C

30
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which layer is unweathered bedrock

A

R

31
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which soil horizons make up the topsoil

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O,A

32
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which horizons make up the subsoil

A

E,B

33
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what are the 2 types of chemical weathering caused by

A

Oxygen

Water

34
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what is the chemical process called that is caused by oxygen

A

Oxidation

35
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what is the chemical process called that is caused by water

A

Hydrolysis

36
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which soil horizons make up the true soil

A

O,A,E,B

37
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What percentage of water on earth is salt water

A

97%

38
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What percentage of water on Earth is fresh water

A

3%

39
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Where is the majority of fresh water found

A

2% found in glaciers

40
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Where is the smaller percentage of fresh water found

A

1% of fresh water is found in lakes and rivers and even ground water

41
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What is precipitation

A

Rain
Snow
Sleet
Hail

42
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what is runoff

A

Water runs of the land surface

43
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what is infiltration

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The process by which water enters Earth and becomes groundwater below the surface

44
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what is transportation

A

When plants release water vapor into atmosphere through their leaves

45
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what is evaporation

A

When water enters the atmosphere as water vapor

46
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what is condensation

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Water vapor molecules collide with other ones they eventually get heavy and fall as precipitation

47
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what is the water cycle

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Where water on land enters the atmosphere and eventually returns back to land

48
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What is an unsaturated zone for groundwater storage

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a porous area where water easily passes though

49
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What is a saturated zone for ground water storage

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Beneath the unsaturated zone where water completely fills the pore space

50
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what is a water table

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The upper boundary of the saturated zone

51
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what does it mean if sediment is permeable

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The more permeable the material the easier water can infiltrate through the ground

52
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What is an aquifer

A

A rock unit that can transfer water through its pore space

53
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What is the name of the great plains aquifer

A

Ogallala Aquifer

54
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how many states does the great plains aquifer run through

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8 states

55
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what are the names of the states that the great plains aquifer run through

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South Dakota
Wyoming
Nebraska
Colorado
Kansas
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Texas
56
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what is an aquitard

A

lay of sediment that doesn’t let water come through

57
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How are water springs formed

A

Where water tables naturally meets Earth’s surface

58
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What is an artesian well

A

wells drilled into pressured aquifers and the pressure would cause the well to over flow

59
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what is a cone of depression

A

Where the direction of the water flows down to enter the well

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