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| The process that breaks down rock and other substances at Earth's surface. |
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| The movement of rock particals by wind, water, ice, or gravity. |
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| Physical Mechanical Weathering |
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| The type of weathering in which a rock is phsically broken into smaller pieces. |
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| Abrosion refers to the grinding away rock by rock particals 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 change. |
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| The materiel that is full of tiny, connected air space that allow water to steep through it. |
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| The loose, weathered materiel on earth's surface in which plants can grow. |
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| The soiled layerof rock beneath the soil |
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| The decayed organic materiel in soil. |
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| soil that is made up of about equal parts of clay, sand,and silt. |
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| A is a layer of soil that differs in colors 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 organisms that break the remains of dead organisms into smaller pieces. |
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| As plants shed leaves, they form a loose layer. |
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| The thick mass of tough roots at the surface of soil. |
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| The one that is naturally replaced in a realitivly short time. |
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| The management of soil to prevent it's destruction. |
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| The practice of plowing fields along curves and slope. |
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| thae soil and its plant cover its as little as possible. |
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| Usually consist of clay and other particals washed down from a horizon. |
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