chapter 27

Question 1

is the process that involves the physical and chemical breack down of a rock

Answer 1

weathering

Question 2

a mixture of weather down rock

Answer 2

soil

Question 3

is the removoval of surface material thought the process

Answer 3

eroision

Question 4

from one place to anther

Answer 4

sediment transports

Question 5

drop of sediment load in a process

Answer 5

deposition

Question 6

land area that gather water for a majoir rivers

Answer 6

drainage basin

Question 7

water parallel water to the sea shore

Answer 7

longshore current

Question 8

weathering definition

Question 9

do rocks weather at the same rate

Answer 9

no they do not

Question 10

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

Answer 10

rock type and landscape

Question 11

what are the two types of weathering

Answer 11

mechanical weathering

chemical weathering

Question 12

what type of change happens with mechanical weathering

Answer 12

physical changes

Question 13

what type of change happens with chemical weathering

Answer 13

chemical changes

Question 14

what are 3 specific types of mechanical weathering

Answer 14

frost weding

biological activity collision

Question 15

what causes frost wedging

Answer 15

water going into the pores of the rocks and freeze

Question 16

what causes biological activity

Answer 16

plants and animals

Question 17

what causes weathering during collisions

Answer 17

rock fall from a cliff or tumble though turbulent rivers

Question 18

what is parent material

Answer 18

what soil is form from

Question 19

what are the 2 types of chemical weathering caused by

Answer 19

oxgen

h2o

Question 20

what is the chemical process called that it is caused by wather

Answer 20

oxygen

Question 21

coused by water

Answer 21

hydrolysis

Question 22

what are soil horizons

Question 23

how many soil horizons

Answer 23

diffent layer of soils

Question 24

t or f all soils contain every soil horizon

Answer 24

f

Question 25

what are the specific soil horizons

Answer 25

o a e b c r

Question 26

how many are there

Answer 26

6

Question 27

what does the first soil cantain

Answer 27

organic mater ail

Question 28

2 one

Answer 28

minerals

Question 29

beating

Answer 29

e

Question 30

coled

Answer 30

b

Question 31

bedrock

Answer 31

c

Question 32

what percent of water on earth is salt

Answer 32

97

Question 33

what percentage of water on earth is feash water

Answer 33

3

Question 34

where is the most of the fresh water is found

Answer 34

glaciers

Question 35

where is the smaller percentage of fresh water found

Answer 35

lake rivers or under ground

Question 36

what is precipitation

Answer 36

rain | snow

Question 37

what is runoff

Answer 37

water run off the land surface

Question 38

what is infiltration

Answer 38

water enter te earth surface

Question 39

what is transpirration

Answer 39

pores of plants

Question 40

what id evaporation

Answer 40

water heat up and turn to gas

Question 41

what is condensation

Answer 41

droplets

Question 42

what is the water cycle

Answer 42

water on land go into the sky and gose back on land

Question 43

what is an unsaturated zone

Answer 43

water pass though

Question 44

what is sturated zone

Answer 44

water stored

Question 45

water table

Answer 45

top of the water

Question 46

is sediment is permeble

Answer 46

easy pass for water

Question 47

what is aquifer

Answer 47

a rock unit that tranform water in it pore space

Question 48

what is the name of the great plains aquifer

Answer 48

ogallala aquifer

Question 49

how many ststes done the greater plains aquifer run though

Answer 49

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Question 50

what are the name of the gp aqufiter

Question 51

the process of assining an exact nimerical age to an organism an objet or event

Answer 51

absolute dating

Question 52

the process of placeing objerts or events in ther proper order in time

Answer 52

relative dating

Question 53

state that the law of nature operate the same today as they did in the past

Answer 53

uinformitarianism

Question 54

states that in an undisturbed sequence of sedmentary rock layers the yougest rock will allways be on top and the oldest at bottom

Answer 54

principle of superposition

Question 55

gap in the rock recoored during which either erosion occurred or deposition was absent

Answer 55

unconformity

Question 56

the remaind of past animal

Answer 56

fossil