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Front 1

How can mechanical weathering speed up chemical weathering?

Back 1

Mechanical wearhering exposes more surface area

Front 2

Name 3 natural sources of acid in solution

Back 2

Carbonic acid, sulfuric acid, and plant acids

Front 3

What factors affect the formation of soil?

Back 3

Parent material, climate, time, organic material

Front 4

How do soils erode, and why is it important to minimize soil erosion?

Back 4

Wind, water, glaciers, organisms . And because its important for plant life

Front 5

Name and sketch the soil horizons that form in a humid climate. Explain how the layers (horizons) form.

Back 5

REMEMBER IT IS AS A LAYERED CAKE.

O --> humus

A ---> leaching

B ---> accumulation

Bedrock

Front 6

Physical disintegration of rock into smaller pieces is called

Back 6

Mechanical weathering

Front 7

The decomposition of rock from exposure to water and atmospheric gases is called

Back 7

Chemical weathering

Front 8

The decomposition of rock from exposure to water and atmospheric gases is called

Back 8

Chemical weathering

Front 9

Which is not a type of mechanical weathering?

Frost wedging

Pressure release

Frost heaving

Oxidation

Back 9

Oxidation

Front 10

The single most effective agent of chemical weathering at Earths surface is?

Carbonic acid

Water

Carbon dioxide

Hydrochloric acid

Back 10

Water

Front 11

The most common end product of the chemical weathering of feldspar is?

Clay minerals

Amphibole

Pyroxene

Calcite

Back 11

Clay minerals

Front 12

The most common end product of the chemical weathering of quartz is?

Clay minerals

Pyroxene

Amphibole

Calcite

Quartz isnt affected

Back 12

Quartz isnt affected

Front 13

Soil with approximately equal amounts of sand, silt, and clay along with a generous amount of organic matter is called

Back 13

Loam

Front 14

Soil with approximately equal amounts of sand, silt, and clay along with a generous amount of organic matter is called

Back 14

Loam

Front 15

The most important factor in determining the type of soil that forma is?

Back 15

Climate

Front 16

The soil horizon containing only organic material is the?

Back 16

O horizon

Front 17

Hardpan forms in the?

A horizon

B horizon

C horizon

E horizon

Back 17

B horizon

Front 18

What conditions of climate and weathering rate could lead to feldspar rich sandstone?

Back 18

Dry climate and slow weathering

Front 19

What do mud cracks tell us about the environment deposition of a sedimentary rock?

Back 19

It used to be wet

Front 20

How does a graded bed form?

Back 20

In slowing water

Front 21

List the detrial sediment particles in order of decreasing grain size.

Back 21

Boulders

Cobbles

Pebbles

Sand

Silt

Clay

Hint 21

Think of onyx from pokemon

Front 22

How does a sedimentary breccia differ in appearance and origin from a conglomerate?

Back 22

Conglomerate: large grains that traveled

Breccia:large angular grains did not travel

Front 23

3 different origins for limestone

Back 23

Lakes

Caves

Open ocean

Springs

Front 24

How does a sedimentary breccia differ in appearance and origin from a conglomerate?

Back 24

Conglomerate: large grains that traveled

Breccia:large angular grains did not travel

Front 25

3 different origins for limestone

Back 25

Lakes

Caves

Open ocean

Springs

Front 26

How does dolomite form?

Back 26

When you replace calcium in calcite with magnesium

Front 27

Origins of coal?

Back 27

Decomposed plant material

Front 28

How do evaporites form? Name two.

Back 28

Water evaporates, rock salt and rock gypsum

Front 29

Name 3 common types of sedimentary rocks

Back 29

Limestone, sandstone, and shale

Front 30

What formation?

Back 30

A high layer of rock

Front 31

Explain two ways that cross-bedding can form

Back 31

Wind and water

Front 32

Particles of sediment from 1/16 to 2 millimeters in diameter are of what size?

Back 32

Sand

Front 33

Rounding is

Back 33

The grinding away of sharp edges of rock fragments during transportation

Front 34

Compaction and cementation are two common processes of

Erosion

Deposition

Transportation

Lithification

Back 34

Lithification

Front 35

Which is not a chemical or organic sedimentary rock?

Back 35

Sandstone

Front 36

Breccia and conglomerate difference

Back 36

rounding of the grains

Front 37

Which is not a type of sandstone?

Back 37

Travertine

Front 38

Which is not a type of sandstone?

Back 38

Travertine

Front 39

Shale differs from mudstone in that

Back 39

Shale is visibly layered and fissile

Front 40

Front (Term)

The chemical element found in dolomite not found in limestone is?

Back 40

Back (Definition)

Magnesium (Mg)

Front 41

Front (Term)

A body or rock of considerable thickness with characteristics that distinguish it from adjacent rock units is called a?

Back 41

Formation

Front 42

If sea level drops or the land rises, what is likely to occur?

Back 42

A regression

Front 43

Thick accumalation of greywacke and volcanic sediments can indicate an ancient

Back 43

Convergent boundary

Front 44

A sedimentary rock made of fragments of preexisting rocks is

Back 44

Detrial

Front 45

Clues to the same nature of the source area of sediment can be found in

Back 45

The composition of the sediment

Front 46

Yes

Back 46

Back (Definition)

Ueah

Front 47

Yeag

Back 47

Hj