Regolith - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

soil - Answer-the fine material covering the Earth's surface composed of both mineral & organic material; dirt vs. soil - Answer-dirt is soil without the organic material weathering - Answer-provides the raw (parent) materials for soil formation and development The processes by which rocks are chemically altered or physically broken into fragments as a result of exposure to atmospheric agents and the pressures & temperatures at or near the Earth's surface, with little or no transportation ...

Hopkins GEOG 1111 Final (Unit 5) EXAM Questions With 100% Correct Answers soil - answerthe fine material covering the Earth's surface composed of both mineral & organic material; dirt vs. soil - answerdirt is soil without the organic material weathering - answerprovides the raw (parent) materials for soil formation and development The processes by which rocks are chemically altered or physically broken into fragments as a result of exposure to atmospheric agents and the pressures & tempe...

Hopkins GEOG 1111 Final (Unit 5) EXAM Questions With 100% Correct Answers soil - answerthe fine material covering the Earth's surface composed of both mineral & organic material; dirt vs. soil - answerdirt is soil without the organic material weathering - answerprovides the raw (parent) materials for soil formation and development The processes by which rocks are chemically altered or physically broken into fragments as a result of exposure to atmospheric agents and the pressures & tempe...

Astronomy Final Exam with Complete Solutions 100% Solved A raised ridge on the surface of Mercury ️️Scarp Pulverized rock that covers the Moon as a fine dust ️️Regolith A bright line emanating outward from craters ️️Ray Smooth dark regions on the Moon where lave once flowed ️️Maria A very large impact crater on Mercury ️️Caloris Basin The largest mountain on Earth (as measured from the sea floor) ️️Mauna Kea A lunar rille is most likely formed from A) two crater...

Hopkins GEOG 1111 Final (Unit 5) EXAM Questions With 100% Correct Answers soil - answerthe fine material covering the Earth's surface composed of both mineral & organic material; dirt vs. soil - answerdirt is soil without the organic material weathering - answerprovides the raw (parent) materials for soil formation and development The processes by which rocks are chemically altered or physically broken into fragments as a result of exposure to atmospheric agents and the pressures & tempe...

Geology Exam #4 Questions With Answers Mass wasting the downslope movement of rock, regolith, snow, or ice due to the pull of gravity Landslide a sudden movement of rock and debris down a nonvertical slope Soil creep the very slow, gradual movement of regolith downslope → driven by expansion and contraction cycles (freeze-thaw and wetting-drying) Failure surface A weak surface that forms the base of a landslide. Slump A semi-coherent volume of regolith that slipped do...

AST 1002 IRSC final exam questions & answers 2024/2025 When the moon is new, we have __ tides; when the moon is full, we have __ tides - ANSWERSSpring; Spring The dark regions on the moon are called - ANSWERSMaria Our moon and in fact, most terrestrial surfaces contain these two basic igneous materials - ANSWERSBasalt and Granite How is lunar farside different from lunar nearside - ANSWERSIt has almost no lunar maria Process where dense materials sink to a planet's core while l...

PSS Exam 1 Final Questions & Answers 2024/2025 Clay vs sand texture workablility - ANSWERSClay is hard to work Sand is easy Wedge qualities - ANSWERSShrink swell looks like a wedge Platy qualities - ANSWERSlike stacked plates Prismatic qualties - ANSWERSnot a perfect rectangle Columnar qualities - ANSWERSrounded with white on top Spheres that create soils - ANSWERSBiosphere, Lithosphere, Hydrosphere, Atmosphere Pedon is - ANSWERS3-D Profile is - ANSWERS2-D Horizon ...

SCSC 301 EXAM 1 activities Questions With Complete Solutions What are the corresponding colors with the associated soils? __1__ colored soils come from organic matter. __2__ colored soils come from iron and aluminum oxides. __3__ colored .___ and ___ oxides are the *most resistant* to weathering. - ANSWER-Fe and Al ____ describes the unconsolidated debris overlying the lithosphere, composed of the O, A, E and B horizons. A. parent material B. solum C. regolith D. soil - ANSWER-...

CRSS 3060 EXAM 1 WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS Hydrolysis - Answer- a chemical decomposition reaction in which a chemical bond is split and the elements contained in water are added Hydration - Answer- A mineral weathering process wherein water molecules combine with soil constituents Igneous rock - Answer- a rock that formed by the cooling and solidification of liquid parts of the lithosphere Loess - Answer- deposit of windblown soil particles, largely silt size metamorphic rock - Ans...