Chapter 5 Vocab Flashcards
The washing out Of fine soil components from the A horizon by downward pre-collating water
Eluvation
The processes by which the internal structure of a mineral is altered by the removal and/or addition of elements
Chemical weathering
The incorporation and transportation a material by a mobile agent, such as water, wind, or ice
Erosion
Large, dome shaped structure, usually composed of granite, formed by sheeting
Exfoliation Domes
Process such as weathering, mass wasting, or erosion that is powered by the sun and transform solid rock in sediment
External processes
The mechanical break up a rock caused by the expansion of freezing water in cracks and crevices
Frost wedging
A process such as mountain building or Volcan is that derives energy from Earth’s interior and elevates Earth surface
Internal process
The depletion of soluble materials from the upper soil by downward pre-collating water
Leaching
The downslope movement of rock, regardless, and soil under the direct influence of gravity
Mass wasting
The physical this interrogation a rock, resulting in small fragments
Mechanical weathering
The material upon which a soil develops
Parent material
The layer of rock and mineral fragments that nearly everywhere covers land and service
Regolith
The concentration of minor amounts of metals that are scattered through on whether groks and economically valuable concentrations by weathering processes
Secondary enrichment
A mechanical weathering process characterized by the splitting of a slap like sheets of rock
Sheeting
A combination of mineral inorganic matter, water, and air; that portion of the regal and that sports plant growth
Soil
