Unit 3 Review Soil, Weathering, Erosion, and Rivers
Across
- 1. The largest soil texture size.
- 4. The agent of erosion most responsible for moving sediment in Culpeper.
- 5. 40% silt, 30% sand, 30% clay
- 8. The watershed to the far western corner of Virginia.
- 10. Clay has a high _________, even though it is impermeable.
- 11. This is the source of pollution that is hard to mitigate, because you do not know who is contributing the runoff.
- 12. A bend or curve in a stream.
- 15. The P in CROPT for what affects soil formation.
- 16. A more common name for oxidation.
- 17. This is the largest river in the world by volume.
- 18. If you are upstream, you are closer to the ….
Down
- 2. A fast tumbling of materials down a slope (usually has snow)
- 3. Occurs as a large chunk of material quickly goes down a slope as one block.
- 6. Small creatures that indicate whether water has pollution or not.
- 7. The organic material found in the O horizon.
- 9. The breaking apart of rocks on cliffs by the freezing of water.
- 13. The main macronutrients in soil.
- 14. The presence of __________ in a water sample usually indicates that the water has fertilizer runoff.
- 17. The rubbing of sediments on a rock that results in the smoothing and chipping away.