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What 2 factors affect the rate of weathering in rocks?* Rock Characteristic & Climate
Chemical weathering occurs faster in areas with more what?*Moisture
What is the most important product of weathering?*Soil
Soil has what four major components?*Mineral Matter, Humus, Water and Air.
What is the soil for the humid eastern US?*Pedalfer
What is the soil for the western US?*Pedocal
What is the soil found in extremely wet or tropic areas?*Laterite
What resource takes millions of years to form like fossil fuels?*Nonrenwable
What are type of fuel is coal, oil, and natural gas?*Fossil Fuel
What resource can be replenished over fairly short time spans?*Renewable
What energy source has two advantages its free and itâ€™s non-polluting?*Solar Power
What type of energy can be extracted from Earthâ€™s internal heat?*Geothermal Power
What type of energy is generated by falling water from a dam?*Hydroelectric Power
What is the increase in average temperatures of Earth?*Global Warmng
What is a water pollution that comes from a known and specific location?*Point Source
What is the collecting of used items so they can be made into new products?*Recycling
What is the careful use of resources like water restrictions?*Conservation
What is it when physical forces break rock into smaller pieces?*Mechanical Weathering
What type of weathering changes a rocks chemical composition?*Chemical Weathering
What is it when living organisms break rocks into smaller pieces?*Biological Activity
What is it when of rocks are exposed and break loosedue to less pressure?*Unloading
What is caused by the expansion of freezing water in the cracks of rocks?*Frost Wedging
What is the most important agent of chemical weathering?*Water
What is a layer of rock and mineral fragments produced by weathering?*Regolith
What is a vertical section through all of the soil horizons?*Soil Profile
What is the part of the regolith that supports the growth of plants?*Soil
What is it when slabs of rock separate like layers of an onion?*Exfoliation
What are horizontal zones or layers of soil?*Soil Horizons
In soils with distinct soil horizons, what is the lowest zone?*Horizon C
In soils with distinct soil horizons, what is the topmost zone?*Horizon A
What is the transfer of soil and rock down-slope due to gravity called?*Mass Movement
What is the force responsible for all mass movements?*Gravity
What occurs when rocks or rock fragments fall freely through the air?*Rockfall
What is the slowest type of mass movement?*Creep
What is the energy source for the water cycle?*Sun
What is it when water moves from plants to the atmosphere?*Transpiration
What is the process that puts water vapor into the atmosphere?*Evaporation
What is a stream that flows into another larger stream is called?*Tributary
What is the slope of a stream is called?*Gradient
What  forms the upper surface of the zone of saturation?*Water Table
What refers to how freely water passes through a rock?*Permeability
Caverns and sinkholes form in what rock?*Limestone
What feature do mature rivers most often have?*Meanders
What is the land area that contributes to water to the stream?*Drainage Basin
What is the single most important erosional agent on Earth?*Running Water
Streams and rivers move material & sediments by what method?*Erosion    
What is the maximum load a stream can carry?*Capacity
What feature can be found where a river empties into the ocean?*Delta
What happens in streams and rivers when their velocity decreases?*Deposit Sediments
What is lacated in the zone of saturation?*Groundwater    
What are landforms characteristically found in an areas with karst topography?*Sinkholes

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