PHSC 210 Test3 Questions and Answers
What is limestone made out of? - Answer-Calcite -- CACO3
Chemical Weathering Formula - Answer-H20+CO2 <--> H2CO3
Mechanical Weathering Examples - Answer-Water (frost wedging(vertical), frost heaving(pushes up)
Thermal Expansion
Root Wedging
Groundwater Sapping
Water Abrasion
Cavitation
Erosion - Answer-transportation of broken material
Weathering - Answer-the breaking of material
, Factors of Mass Wasting - Answer-lack of Vegetation
relief
seismic activity
water
type of bedrock
slope
Four Categories of Mass Wasting - Answer-Falls, Slides, Slow Flows, Rapid Flows
Soil Horizons - Answer-A,O,E,B,C -- loam and bedrock
water percentages - Answer-96.5 -- Oceans
0.9 -- Saline Groundwater
2.5 -- Fresh water
--> 68.7 -- Glaciers
--> 30.1 -- Groundwater
--> 1.2 -- Surface Waters
types of work for streams - Answer-erosion, transportation, deposition
four types of erosion - Answer-cavitation
abrasion
solution
hydraulic action
What is limestone made out of? - Answer-Calcite -- CACO3
Chemical Weathering Formula - Answer-H20+CO2 <--> H2CO3
Mechanical Weathering Examples - Answer-Water (frost wedging(vertical), frost heaving(pushes up)
Thermal Expansion
Root Wedging
Groundwater Sapping
Water Abrasion
Cavitation
Erosion - Answer-transportation of broken material
Weathering - Answer-the breaking of material
, Factors of Mass Wasting - Answer-lack of Vegetation
relief
seismic activity
water
type of bedrock
slope
Four Categories of Mass Wasting - Answer-Falls, Slides, Slow Flows, Rapid Flows
Soil Horizons - Answer-A,O,E,B,C -- loam and bedrock
water percentages - Answer-96.5 -- Oceans
0.9 -- Saline Groundwater
2.5 -- Fresh water
--> 68.7 -- Glaciers
--> 30.1 -- Groundwater
--> 1.2 -- Surface Waters
types of work for streams - Answer-erosion, transportation, deposition
four types of erosion - Answer-cavitation
abrasion
solution
hydraulic action