Test 1

Question 1

Soils in the SE US with warmth causing increased rate of leeching?

Answer 1

Ultisols

Question 2

Vertisol characteristic?

Answer 2

Heavy clay

Question 3

Characteristics of depositional aeolian landscapes?

Answer 3

Found more in humid areas where they are stabalized, or they are on steps, creates fertile land and develops LOESSIAN SOILS.

Question 4

____ refers to mountain building events

Answer 4

orogeny

Question 5

immature soil typoe?

Answer 5

entisol

Question 6

The US has two of these, one where the rockies are, and thre other where the appalachians are.

Answer 6

The orogenic belts

Question 7

Characteristics of spodsols?

Answer 7

developed under CONIFEROUS VEGETATION

Question 8

Illuviation of clay in the b horizon is found in this soil type

Answer 8

alfisols

Question 9

Charcteristics of histosols

Answer 9

nasty murky muddy with organic matter decomposing

Question 10

What are orogenic belts and how are they formed?

Answer 10

Formerly active edges of a continent formed by plate convergence

Question 11

What is the primary trigger of plate tectonics?

Answer 11

The circulation of asthenosphere in the mantel.

Question 12

Sometimes a glacier will leave behind a river and a trail of shit, this is known as__-

Answer 12

the outwash plain

Question 13

The deposition of materials removed from previous horizons

Answer 13

illuviation

Question 14

Inceptisol charcteristics

Answer 14

young soils found in arctic with ALLUVIUM and evidence of WEATHERING

Question 15

alfisols distinguishing characteristic?

Answer 15

clay in the b horizon

Question 16

Upside down river bed left behind by a glacier?

Answer 16

Esker

Question 17

organic soils that form in poor drainage areas, made up of ORGANIC MATTER AT VARIOUS STAGES OF DECOMPOSITION

Answer 17

Histosols

Question 18

The basement rocks of continents are known as _____

Answer 18

Craton

Question 19

What are the features of a composite volcano?

Answer 19

most dangers,cylindrical, steep sided, lava bmbs, mt st heles, shasta, PYROCLASTIC flows.

Question 20

Change in temperature differentails between air masses contribue to changes in what?

Answer 20

Pressure

Question 21

horizon where there is loose and partly decayed organic mattert?

Answer 21

O

Question 22

A region with sinkholes, caves and closed depressions is called this

Answer 22

karst landscape

Question 23

Describe the structural controls of a Parallel drainage

Answer 23

closely spaced faults, steep topography, non cohesive sediments.

Question 24

Wind velocity is the required element for this activity

Answer 24

Particles uindergoing rolling, pushing ,creeping, saltation etc

Question 25

Horizon where there is zone of eluviation and leachin?

Answer 25

E

Question 26

Characteristics of a shield volcano and foudn where?

Answer 26

very large, gently sloping slow moving lava mostly in snake river basic and west near idao (also hawaii

Question 27

Wind shaped landforms are also known as

Answer 27

Aeolian Landscapes

Question 28

How does the davisian cycle of erosion in humid envireonments begin and end?

Answer 28

begins with uplift and ends with PENEPLAIN

Question 29

What are related mountain ranges called?

Answer 29

Cordilleras

Question 30

mineral matter mixed with some humus is what horizon?

Answer 30

A

Question 31

Where a glacier might sit on a mountain?

Answer 31

The cirque

Question 32

Changes in temperature contribute to changes in ??

Answer 32

Pressure

Question 33

What are the characteristics of erosional coastal landforms?

Answer 33

sea cliffs, and wave cut platforms

Question 34

What is the melting of the glacier due to pressure known as?

Answer 34

Ablation

Question 35

What are the areas of ground that have major holes showing that glaciers had dropped off a huge chunk of ice known as?

Answer 35

Kettles

Question 36

Soils developed under coniferous vegetation are called

Answer 36

SPODSOLS

Question 37

Particles that undergo rolling or pushing creep, saltation, etc depends up ______ _______

Answer 37

Wind velocity

Question 38

Horizon where there is clay transported from above?

Answer 38

B

Question 39

LITTERFALL AND HUMUS ENRICHMENT are the terms that will help you identify which soild type?

Answer 39

mollisols

Question 40

If 3 aretes meet, they might leave behind this sharp looking feature

Answer 40

a horn

Question 41

What are moraines

Answer 41

the edges and cuts in the ground that are left behind by glaciers

Question 42

the downward transport process of minerals through the soil profile aka leaching is

Answer 42

eluviation

Question 43

How does latitude affect climate?

Answer 43

it determines the angle of solar radiation (at the north and south pole, radiation hits it more obliquely/at the equator, the radiation migrates between both tropics.

Question 44

What is the first thing to triggwer glacial movement?

Answer 44

Pressure caused from increased accumulation

Question 45

A karst landscape is generally underlain by these 2 things

Answer 45

limestone and dolomite.

Question 46

A terrain generally underlain by limestone or dolomite is known as this:

Answer 46

Karst Landscape

Question 47

What are the craton?

Answer 47

The basement rocks of continents

Question 48

What is the O horizon of soil

Answer 48

top, loose and partly decayed organic matter

Question 49

How are loessian soils created?

Answer 49

The deposition of fine particles via wind.

Question 50

The terms weathering and ALLUVIUM will help you identify which type of soil?

Answer 50

Inceptisols

Question 51

This type of wind erosion is done through sand blasting and removal of debris

Answer 51

abrasion and deflation

Question 52

A cirque is what now?

Answer 52

Where the glacier sits on a mountain

Question 53

Dry climate soils with salinization?

Answer 53

aridisols

Question 54

What are the edgs and recessions that are made to show how a glacier has moved?

Answer 54

Moraines

Question 55

Characteristics of erosional aeolian landforms?

Answer 55

Primarily found in ARID regions.

Question 56

________ IS WHAT YOU EXPECT; __________ IS WHAT YOU GET

Answer 56

Climate; Weather

Question 57

mollisols charcateristics?

Answer 57

Dark A horizon color because of HUMUS enrichment from decompost of LITTERFALL

Question 58

When a glacier tears through a region and just fucks it all up?

Answer 58

Deranged drainage.

Question 59

The process by which the oceanic plate is being sucked under by the continental plate is known as?

Answer 59

Subduction

Question 60

An oval like hill left behind by a glacier?

Answer 60

Drumlin

Question 61

How are the seasons determined on earth?

Answer 61

The axial tilt.

Question 62

A heavy clay soil type?

Answer 62

Vertisols

Question 63

aridisols distinguishing characteristic?

Answer 63

found in dry climates where deposits of salts are found AKA SALINIZATION

Question 64

Whena glacier melts from an alpine area it might leave behind this

Answer 64

An Arete

Question 65

what are the characteristics of a depositional coastal landform?

Answer 65

barrier islands, lagoons, swamps, sediment being dumpoed over a long period of time.

Question 66

What are the mounds of sediments left behind by glaciers known as?>

Answer 66

Kames

Question 67

Horizon where there is partially altered parent material?

Answer 67

C