Chapter 27.1-27.2

Question 1

The process that involves the physical or chemical breakdown of materials of earth surface.

Answer 1

Weathering

Question 2

Mixture of weathered rock, organic matter, water,and air that is capable of supporting plat lifes.

Answer 2

Soil

Question 3

The removal of surface material through the process of weathering.

Answer 3

Erosion

Question 4

Rocks weather, erosional agent like water, ice, wind, and gravity.

Answer 4

Sediment Transport

Question 5

It drops this sediment load in a process.

Answer 5

Deposition

Question 6

Land and area that gathers water for a major river.

Answer 6

Drainage Basin

Question 7

Movement of water parallel to the shoreline.

Answer 7

Longshore Current

Question 8

What is weathering

Answer 8

The process that involves the physical or chemical breakdown of materials on Earth.

Question 9

do rocks weather at the same rate

Answer 9

No

Question 10

What are the 2 main factors that determine how fast a rock will weather.

Answer 10

rock type and landscape

Question 11

What are the 2 types of weathering?

Answer 11

Mechanical and Chemical

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 changess

Question 14

What are the 3 specific types of mechanical weathering

Answer 14

frost wedging , biological activity and collision.

Question 15

What causes frost wedging

Answer 15

Cracks rock the freezes

Question 16

What is the cycle called during frost wedging

Answer 16

The rock will break apart

Question 17

What causes weathering during collisions

Answer 17

Plant and animal activity

Question 18

what causes weathering during collisions

Answer 18

When rocks fall from cliff

Question 19

What is parent material

Answer 19

The material soil horizons

Question 20

What are soil horizons

Answer 20

Different layers of soil

Question 21

How many soil horizons are there

Answer 21

There can be up to 6

Question 22

True or False. All soils contain every soil horizon

Answer 22

False

Question 23

What are specific soil horizons

Answer 23

O A E B C R

Question 24

What does the 1st soil horizon contian

Answer 24

organic material

Question 25

What is the 2nd horizon mostly made up of?

Answer 25

Minerals

Question 26

Which layer does leaching occur

Answer 26

E

Question 27

Which horizon collects materials from previous horizons.

Answer 27

Horizon B

Question 28

Which layer is partially weathered bedrock

Answer 28

Horizon C

Question 29

Which layer is unweathered bedrock

Answer 29

Horizon R

Question 30

Which soil horizons make up the topsoil.

Answer 30

Horizon O and A

Question 31

Which soil horizon makes up the subsoil.

Answer 31

Horizon E and B

Question 32

what are the two types of chemical weathering

Answer 32

oxygen and water

Question 33

What are chemical changes due to oxygen

Answer 33

oxydation

Question 34

What are chemical changes due to water

Answer 34

Hydrolossis

Question 35

which horizons make up the true soil

Answer 35

Horizon O A E B

Question 36

What is the difference between weathering and erosion.

Answer 36

Weathering is the break down of materials and erosion is surface material.

Question 37

What happens to the speed of the river.

Question 38

What are large streams that flow into larger river.

Answer 38

Tributaries

Question 39

What is the land area called that gathers water for a major river.

Answer 39

Drainage Basin

Question 40

What is a distinct drainage boundary called.

Answer 40

Drainage Divide

Question 41

When water flows downhill due to gravity, water erodes earth surface creating?

Answer 41

Channels

Question 42

Young rivers create what type of shape due to fast movement,

Answer 42

V-shaped

Question 43

What type are rivers are wide with smooth gentle slopes.

Answer 43

Mature

Question 44

When rivers flood and drop their sediment load, flood plain form along the valley sides.

Answer 44

Flood Plains

Question 45

What are the fan shape sediment deposit that forms the mouth of the river.

Answer 45

Deltas

Question 46

What are the branching channels created by deltas.

Answer 46

Distributaries.

Question 47

What forms when a river or stream into dry land.

Answer 47

Alluvial Fans

Question 48

2 types of glaciers

Answer 48

valley glaciers and continental glacier

Question 49

where do valley glaciers form.

Answer 49

High Mountainous regions

Question 50

where do continental form

Answer 50

large land areas,cold climates

Question 51

where are the two continental glaciers located

Answer 51

Greenland, Antarctica

Question 52

what are cirque.

Answer 52

bowl shaped basin

Question 53

where do arete from.

Question 54

long, sharp rideline

Answer 54

sharpened peaks

Question 55

What shapes of valleys do valley glaciers make

Answer 55

U-shaped valley

Question 56

What is a tributary glacier

Answer 56

small glaciers that feed into the large glaciers

Question 57

On which side of a dune, does erosion occur

Answer 57

Windward side

Question 58

On which side of the dune does deposition occur

Answer 58

leeward side

Question 59

The removal of small particles by wind, leaving heavier particles behind.

Answer 59

deflatation

Question 60

When small particles are removed the remaining surface.

Answer 60

Desert Pavement

Question 61

What does the shape and sizes of landforms due to wind depend on

Answer 61

wind speed amount of time the wind blows sediment supply

Question 62

what are some landforms created by erosion.

Answer 62

coastal cliffs sea stacks sea arches

Question 63

what are 2 examples of waves deeposition

Answer 63

sandbars and sand spits

Question 63

what are 2 examples of waves deeposition

Answer 63

sandbars and sand spits

Question 64

What is sandbar

Answer 64

Landforms that are parallel to the shoreline

Question 65

what is a sandspit

Answer 65

kinda like sandbars but shaped like a hook

Question 66

What can cause mass wasting

Answer 66

Snow Heavy Rain Human Activity

Question 67

What can cause mass wasting

Answer 67

Snow Heavy Rain Human Activity

Question 68

What are some examples of mass wasting

Answer 68

Rock slides Mudflows Landslides