Unit 2 Earth's Resources Vocabulary Terms

The natural process by which atmospheric and environmental agents, such as wind, rain, and temperature changes, disintegrate and decompose rocks is

• Erosion

• Weathering

• Deposition

• Composition

The quality of a rock that is based on the sizes, shapes, and positions of the rock’s grains is

• Texture

• Composition

• Compound

• Crystal

The process by which wind, water, ice or gravity transports soil and sediment from one location to another

• Deposition

• Composition

• Rock

• Erosion

The process in which material is laid down is

• Uplift

• Deposition

• Compound

• Luster

The chemical makeup of a rock; describes either the minerals or other materials in the rock is

• Luster

• Cleavage

• Crystal

• Composition

a loose mixture of rock fragments, organic material, water, and air that can support the growth of vegetation is

• Soil

• Soil Profile

• Soil Horizon

• Humus

the energy produced by heat within Earth is

• geothermal energy

• solar energy

• hydroelectric energy

• wind energy

each layer of soil within a soil profile is

• Soil

• Soil Horizon

• Humus

• Soil Profile

a natural resource that humans use to generate energy is

• Energy Resource

• Nuclear Energy

• Wind Energy

• Solar Energy

the energy released by a fission or fusion reaction; the binding energy of the atomic nucleus is

• Biomass

• Hydroelectric Energy

• Fossil Fuel

• Nuclear Energy