Transcript Big Points

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Topic 1
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bottomlands where
water is plentiful, soil
is often…
Thin, rock, thick, light
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thick
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The molten material
deep inside Earth from
which igneous rocks
form is called…
Lava, magma, neither, both
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magma
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The crystals that form
in slowly cooled magma
produce___ mineral
grains
Large, tiny fine-grained,
invisible
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LARGE
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When lava cools at
Earth’s surface,
___igneous rocks are
formed.
Metamorphic, intrusive,
extrusive, course-grained
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EXTRUSIVE
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Most leaching of
minerals occurs from
the ___horizon into the
_____horizon.
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A horizon into the B
horizon
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What horizon contains
the most humus?
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A horizon
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What kind of rock is:
Sandstone and
limestone and rock salt
(halite)?
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Sedimentary rock
Or
clastic and
organic/chemical
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Small pieces of rock
such as sand, silt, and
clay are called____
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LOAM
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What kind of rock are
granite, obsidian, and
porphry?
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igneous
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What turns and loosens
soil, improving it for
crops, but leaving soil
vulnerable to erosion?
Plowing, no till farming,
grazing, terracing
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plowing
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Fine-grained, extrusive
rocks include all of the
following EXCEPT
Basalt, granite, pumice,
scoria
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granite
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Mechanical weathering
is more rapid in what
type of climate?
Cold, hot, humid, dry
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cold
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What regions are vulnerable
to erosion b/c their soils are
useful to farmers for only a
few yrs b4 their nutrients are
gone?
Desert, prairie, tropical,
mountain
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Tropical
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Difference btwn
mechanical and
chemical weathering is
what?
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The way they affect the
makeup of a rock
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Soils where contain little
organic material and are
thin?
Temperate forests,
deserts, prairies, tropical
areas
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deserts
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What would be
considered a rock?
Quartz, granite, mica,
all of them
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granite
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Igneous rocks form
from what when it
cools?
Lava, magma, neither,
or both
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both
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The layer of soil that
contains the most
organic material is calle
___horizon.
A, B, C,D
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A horizon
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Below horizon C is
Rock, humus, clay,
topsoil
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Rock
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On steep slopes and mtns,
what helps reduce erosion
by creating level areas for
crops?
Shelter belt, mulching,
strip cropping, terracing
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terracing
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Terracing
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When magma cools
deep inside earth what
kind of igneous rock is
formed?
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intrusive
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Sandstone is what type
of rock?
Chemical,
detrital(clastic),
organic, none of them
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Clastic sedimentary
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The rock and mineral
fragments in soil come
from rock that has been
Chemically treated,
weathered, carved,
blasted
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weathered
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Magma from deep inside
earth rises toward the
surface b/c
It is denser than rock around it,
has the same density as the rock,
or is less dense than the rock
around it.
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Magma is less dense
than the rock around it.
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The rate of weathering
depends on the area’s
Oxygen, soil, water,
climate
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climate
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Mechanical weathering..
Breaks apart rocks by physical
processes, occurs when iron is
exposed to oxygen and water,
occurs when chemical
reactions dissolve or change
the minerals in rocks, none of
them
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Breaks apart rocks by
physical processes
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