Chapter 14 vocab

1. Small holes and spaces.
4. The average weather of an area
8. The surroundings or conditions of a place
9. Making of maps
11. weathering Changes the materials that are part rock into something else
13. A mixture of weathered rock, Rock fragments, Decayed Organic matter, water, air
15. Combines the element of oxygen with other elements

2. matter that settles to the bottom of a river.
3. Process that changes Earth's surface
5. weathering When physical properties break down a surface
6. matter The remains of something that was once alive
7. The process of changing once-living material into dark colored organic matter
10. material The starting material of soil
12. Layers of soil formed from the movement of the products of weathering
14. all of the organisms that live in a region