6SCI - CH 2 REVIEW
Across
- 3. also known as horizon A, where most plants germinate and grow roots
- 5. a type of erosion when water transports sediment
- 6. small particles produced by weathering
- 7. a type of erosion along shorelines caused by pounding ocean waves
- 10. a type of weathering, transforming rocks into new substances - oxidation, carbonic acid, acid rain, lichens
- 12. also known as horizon B, consists mostly of weathered minerals from the bedrock
- 13. the ideal soil mixture, it is especially fertile
- 14. the largest kind of particle
Down
- 1. when a glacier picks up huge pieces of bedrock
- 2. piles of debris left by a melted glacier at the bottom of a mountain
- 4. also known as wind erosion, when wind blows, picks up loose sediment and carries it away - types are dust storms and sandstorms
- 8. when weathered material moves from one location to another
- 9. decayed organic material, part of soil
- 10. the smallest kind of particle
- 11. a type of erosions when ice formations called glaciers slide down a mountain, picking up pieces of mountain with them