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| The process that breaks down rocks and other substances at Earth's surface |
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| The movement of rock particles by wind, water, ice, or gravity. |
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| Mechanical Weathering/ physical weathering |
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| The type of weathering in which rock is physically broken into smaller pieces. |
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| The grinding away of rock by rock particles carried by water, ice, wind, or gravity. |
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| Wedges of ice in rocks widen and deepen cracks. |
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| The process that breaks down rock through chemical changes. |
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| A material that is full of tiny, connected air spaces in the rock, it removes dissloved material formed by weathering...and allows water to seep through it |
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| the loose, weathered material on Earth's surface in which plants can grow. |
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| The solid layer of rock beneath the soil. |
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| A dark-colored substance that forms as plant and animal remain decay. |
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| Soil that is made up of about equal parts of clay, sand, and silt. |
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| A layer of soil that differs in color and texture from the layers above or below it |
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| A crumbly, dark brown soil that is a mixture of humus, clay and other minerals |
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| The layer that usually consist of clay and other particles washed down from the A horizon, but little humus |
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| as plants shed leaves, they form a loose layer called litter |
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| Organisms that break the remains of dead organisms into smaller pieces and digest them with chemicals |
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| One that is naturally replaced in a relatively short time. |
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| the management of soil to prevent its destruction |
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| The practice of plowing fields along the curves of a slope. |
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| Disturbs the soil and its plant cover as little as possible |
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| The thick mass of tough roots at the surface of the soil |
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| The area of the great plains where wind eriosion caused soil loss during the 1930's |
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