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The soil that is remaining after the soluble elements have been dissolved.
A) Residum
B) Loess
C) Moraines
D)Delta |
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Poorly sorted rock fragments detached from heights above and carried downslope. These materials are usually coarse and stony because of physical weathering and not chemical weathering.
A) Moraines
B) Deltas
C) Colluvial
D) Loess |
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Unconsolidated soil material consisting largely of undecomposed, or only slightly decomposed, organic matter accumulated under conditions of excessive moisture.
A) Loess
B) Organic deposits (peats)
C) Moraines
D) Residum |
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| B) Organic deposits (peats) |
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An alluvial deposit formed where a stream or river drops its sediment load upon entering a quieter body of water.
A) Deltas
B) Kames
C) Loess
D) Drumlins |
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| Fan-shaped alluvium deposited at the mouth of a canyon or ravine where debris laden waters fan out, slow down, and deposit their burden. |
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Material transported and deposited by wind and consisting of predominantly silt-sized particles.
A) Deltas
B) Kames
C) Moraines
D) Loess |
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An accumulation of drift, with an initial topographic expression of its own, built within a glaciated region chiefly by the direct action of glacial ice.
A) Deltas
B) Eskers
C) Drumlins
D) Moraines |
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Material deposited in lake water and later exposed either by lowering of the water level or by the elevation of the land.
A) Peats
B) Lacustrine
C) Eskers
D) Residuum |
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A conical hill or ridgenof sand or gravel deposited in contact with glacial ice.
A) Eskers
B) Kames
C) Drumlins
D) Loess |
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A narrow ridge of gravelly or sandy glacial material deposited by a stream in an ice-walled valley or tunnel in a receding glacier.
A) Eskers
B) Kames
C) Drumlins
D) Residum |
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Long, smooth, cigar-shaped low hills of glacial till, with their long axes parallel to the direction of ice movement.
A) Eskers
B) Kames
C) Drumlins
D) Residum |
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| List 3 examples of physical weathering processes. |
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| Rocks can be worn down by temperature change(makes rocks expand and contract then break), windblown sand (like sandpaper), ice glaciers embedded with soil and rock fragments (wears rocks down). |
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| Which type of weathering process usually dominates in arid areas? |
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| Which type of weathering process usually dominates in humid areas? |
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| They are molten magna;volcanic in nature. They have lots of silicone in them. |
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| Describe Sedimentary Rocks. |
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| They are materials that weathered from other rocks that glue back together. |
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| Describe Metamorphic Rocks. |
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| These are rocks that have been changed, usually by high pressure and temperatures below the Earth's surface. These rocks are very difficult to weather. |
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| Which type of rock do we find mostly here in Southwest Missouri? |
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