Question 1

What is an enlarged rill ?

Accepted Answer

Gulley

Question 2

What is the movement of weathered material from one place to another ?

Accepted Answer

Erosion

Question 3

What is the scraping away of surface material by wind and sand

Accepted Answer

Exfoliation

Question 4

What are particles dented by wind blown sand

Accepted Answer

Ventifacts

Question 5

What is soil that has been moved away from parent rock ?

Accepted Answer

Transported soil

Question 6

What type of weathering is acid rain ?

Accepted Answer

Chemical

Question 7

What is the slow mass movement of soil ?

Accepted Answer

Creep

Question 8

what type of mass movement leaves a crescent scar ?

Accepted Answer

Slump

Question 9

What term describes molecule reaction with water ?

Accepted Answer

Hydrolysis

Question 10

What results when  CO2 is combined with H2O ?

Accepted Answer

HCO3  (carbonic acid)

Question 11

Frost wedging is what type of weathering ?

Accepted Answer

Mechanical

Question 12

A soil profile is made up of layers called what ?

Accepted Answer

Horizons

Question 13

What is the top layer of a soil profile?

Accepted Answer

A  or topsoil

Question 14

What is the movement of nutrients through the soil layers  that will contribute to infertility ?

Accepted Answer

Leaching

Question 15

What is the dropping of sediment by wind or water ?

Accepted Answer

Deposition

Question 16

What is the most powerful source of erosion ?

Accepted Answer

Glacier

Question 17

What  produces the most erosion ? Wind or Water ?

Accepted Answer

Water

Question 18

What erosional process can move  sediment uphill ?

Accepted Answer

Wind

Question 19

What erosional force carries unsorted material down hill ?

Accepted Answer

Glacier

Question 20

What climate has good drainage but thin horizon layers ?

Accepted Answer

polar

Question 21

What climate has poor soil due to leaching ?

Accepted Answer

Tropical

Question 22

What climate do we live in ?

Accepted Answer

Temperate

Question 23

What do the horizontal soil layers make up

Accepted Answer

Soil profile

Question 24

The fast downhill movement of soil and water is called what ?

Accepted Answer

Mudslide

Question 25

What is the force working against resistance during mass movements ?

Accepted Answer

Gravity

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