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Topic 1 Question for 5 PointsIn bottomlands where water is plentiful, soil is often… Thin, rock, thick, light Show Answer

Topic 1 Answer for 5 Points thick Back to Board

Topic 1 Question for 10 Points The molten material deep inside Earth from which igneous rocks form is called… Lava, magma, neither, both Show Answer

Topic 1 Answer for 10 Points magma Back to Board

Topic 1 Question for 15 Points The crystals that form in slowly cooled magma produce___ mineral grains Large, tiny fine-grained, invisible Show Answer

Topic 1 Answer for 15 Points LARGE Back to Board

Topic 1 Question for 20 Points When lava cools at Earth’s surface, ___igneous rocks are formed. Metamorphic, intrusive, extrusive, course-grained Show Answer

Topic 1 Answer for 20 Points EXTRUSIVE Back to Board

Topic 1 Question for 25 Points Most leaching of minerals occurs from the ___horizon into the _____horizon. Show Answer

Topic 1 Answer for 25 Points A horizon into the B horizon Back to Board

Topic 2 What horizon contains the most humus? Show Answer

Topic 2 Answer for 5 Points A horizon Back to Board

Topic 2 Question for 10 Points What kind of rock is: Sandstone and limestone and rock salt (halite)? Show Answer

Topic 2 Answer for 10 Points Sedimentary rock Or clastic and organic/chemical Back to Board

Topic 2 Question for 15 Points Small pieces of rock such as sand, silt, and clay are called____ Show Answer

Topic 2 Answer for 15 Points LOAM Back to Board

Topic 2 Question for 20 Points What kind of rock are granite, obsidian, and porphry? Show Answer

Topic 2 Answer for 20 Points igneous Back to Board

Topic 2 Question for 25 Points What turns and loosens soil, improving it for crops, but leaving soil vulnerable to erosion? Plowing, no till farming, grazing, terracing Show Answer

Topic 2 Answer for 25 Points plowing Back to Board

Topic 3 Question for 5 Points Fine-grained, extrusive rocks include all of the following EXCEPT Basalt, granite, pumice, scoria Show Answer

Topic 3 Answer for 5 Points granite Back to Board

Topic 3 Question for 10 Points Mechanical weathering is more rapid in what type of climate? Cold, hot, humid, dry Show Answer

Topic 3 Answer for 10 Points cold Back to Board

Topic 3 Question for 15 Points 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 Show Answer

Topic 3 Answer for 15 Points Tropical Back to Board

Topic 3 Question for 20 Points Difference btwn mechanical and chemical weathering is what? Show Answer

Topic 3 Answer for 20 Points The way they affect the makeup of a rock Back to Board

Topic 3 Question for 25 Points Soils where contain little organic material and are thin? Temperate forests, deserts, prairies, tropical areas Show Answer

Topic 3 Answer for 25 Points deserts Back to Board

Topic 4 Question for 5 Points What would be considered a rock? Quartz, granite, mica, all of them Show Answer

Topic 4 Answer for 5 Points granite Back to Board

Topic 4 Question for 10 Points Igneous rocks form from what when it cools? Lava, magma, neither, or both Show Answer

Topic 4 Answer for 10 Points both Back to Board

Topic 4 Question for 15 Points The layer of soil that contains the most organic material is calle ___horizon. A, B, C,D Show Answer

Topic 4 Answer for 15 Points A horizon Back to Board

Topic 4 Question for 20 Points Below horizon C is Rock, humus, clay, topsoil Show Answer

Rock Topic 4 Answer for 20 Points Back to Board

Topic 4 Question for 25 Points Show Answer On steep slopes and mtns, what helps reduce erosion by creating level areas for crops? Shelter belt, mulching, strip cropping, terracing

Topic 4 Answer for 25 Points terracing Back to Board

Terracing

Topic 5 Question for 5 Points When magma cools deep inside earth what kind of igneous rock is formed? Show Answer

Topic 5 Answer for 5 Points intrusive Back to Board

Topic 5 Question for 10 Points Sandstone is what type of rock? Chemical, detrital(clastic), organic, none of them Show Answer

Topic 5 Answer for 10 Points Clastic sedimentary Back to Board

Topic 5 Question for 15 Points The rock and mineral fragments in soil come from rock that has been Chemically treated, weathered, carved, blasted Show Answer

Topic 5 Answer for 15 Points weathered Back to Board

Topic 5 Question for 20 Points 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. Show Answer

Topic 5 Answer for 20 Points Magma is less dense than the rock around it. Back to Board

Topic 5 Question for 25 Points The rate of weathering depends on the area’s Oxygen, soil, water, climate Show Answer

Topic 5 Answer for 25 Points climate Back to Board

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“Big Points”Question 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 Show Answer

Big Points Answer for Big Points Breaks apart rocks by physical processes Back to Board

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