WorksheetsSoil, Weathering, Erosion, and Deposition.
Total questions: 24
Worksheet time: 24mins
What is the O horizon?
Topsoil
Subsoil
Erosion
Humus
Deposition
What Is the A horizon?
Parent Material
Soil
Topsoil
Bedrock
None Of these
What is the B horizon?
Pink Soil
Subsoil
Bedrock
Belowsoil
WeatheredBedrock
What is the C horizon?
Rock
Soil
Weatheredbedrock
Bedrock
Purplesoil
What is the R horizon?
Terracing
Abovesoil
Bedrock
Sleeprock
Humus
Which forms on the ceiling of caves as water drips through cracks?
Schalictics
Bats
Stalacties
Stlactaies
None of these
Which type of soil or rock allows water to pass through it?
Volcanoes
Pourmeabowl
Subrock
Surface area
Permeable
A soil conservation method that shortens the steep slope into a series of shorter,level steps.
Terracing
No-Till Farming
Crop rotation
Down the stairs
All of these
How is surface area related to chemical weathering?
Allows for less chemical weathering
Allows for rain
Allows for more weathering
Doesn't help at all
None of these
Soil is a mixture of......(Pick 3)
Sand
Weathered rock and mineral fragments
Water
Clay
Decayed organic matter and oxygen
How do farmers manage crops to reduce soil erosion?(Pick 3)
They plant shelter belts
Practice no till farming
Use lawnmowers
Never milk their cows.
Use animals to graze over vegetation.
What are the 3 essential benefits of soil? (Pick 3)
Stores Water
You can play with it
Nutrients for plants
Provides homes for animals.
Worms like it
It is important to preserve topsoil because......
It is the most important layer
Its big
The nutrients helps the plants grow
It holds water
None of these
List the sediment size from largest to smallest:
Loam,Clay,Sand,Silt
Clay,Sand,Silt
Soil,Humus,Bedrock,Subsoil
Sand,Silt,Clay
All of these
What is erosion?
A process that drops sediment
A process that keeps the sediment the same
A process that moves sediment
A process that breaks down sediment
A process that chemically changes the sediment
How does abrasion occur?
Wind
Wind-blown sediments strike a surface
Breaks it down
Water gets into rocks cracks and freezes them, causing the rock the expand.
Deltas form
What was the major environmental disaster during The Great Depression?
Gust Gowl
World War 2
All of these
Dust Bowl
Cereal Bowl
Lichens erode rocks by producing:
Acid Rain
Smog
Glaciers
Acids
Orange Fanta
Rust Is produced by the combination of:
Iron Ore and Gold
Nothing
Rust
Iron,Oxygen,and Water.
Jewls
After thousands of years, the softer outer parts of the Devi;ls Tower have eroded away, leaving the harder more resistant igneous volcanic neck. This is an example of:
Differential Weathering
Erosion
Chemical Weathering
Deposition
The devil
An example of mass wasting is a........(Pick 3)
Rock slide
Land slide
Mud flow
Chocolate milk hill slide
Lahar
Examples of mechanical weathering include: (Pick 2)
Water
Plant rooting
Ice Wedging
Animal Houses
Gravity pulling a rock off a cliff
Examples of chemical weathering are: (Pick 2)
Running water
Acid precipitation wearing away a brick wall
Nothing
Statues cover with holes.
everything
The process that occurs when minerals dissolve and sink into lower soil horizons is called:
Lakes
Loving
Leaching
Leaking
Laughing
