ESS 101 FINAL: Weathering/Soil – Questions With
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1. they provide protected settings for soil and plants to
establish
How do joints facilitate 2. permit water and other chemical agents to penetrate
weathering? below surface
3. provide more surface area for the weathering front to
attack
frost wedging occurs in water expands when it freezes to form ice
rocks because _______
as soils age, the soil 1. thicker -- horizon
profiles become: 2. redder
1. in residual bedrock
soil profiles can form:
2. in unconsolidated sediment
which isn't a soil forming hydration of void spaces between soil particles
process? following a precipitation event
1. transformation of primary FeO to secondary Fe2O3
which is a soil forming 2. translocation of clay minerals from A to B horizon
process? 3. eluviation of soluble cations from soil profile
4. illuviation of calcium carbonate in B horizon
Which soil horizon would B horizon
contain accumulated
calcium carbonate
concretions?
Besides frost wedging, 1. bioturbation
which are examples of 2. spalling of boulders from range fires
mechanical weathering?
H+ ions utilized in carbonic acid
hydrolysis weathering
reactions come from?
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Terms in this set (31)
1. they provide protected settings for soil and plants to
establish
How do joints facilitate 2. permit water and other chemical agents to penetrate
weathering? below surface
3. provide more surface area for the weathering front to
attack
frost wedging occurs in water expands when it freezes to form ice
rocks because _______
as soils age, the soil 1. thicker -- horizon
profiles become: 2. redder
1. in residual bedrock
soil profiles can form:
2. in unconsolidated sediment
which isn't a soil forming hydration of void spaces between soil particles
process? following a precipitation event
1. transformation of primary FeO to secondary Fe2O3
which is a soil forming 2. translocation of clay minerals from A to B horizon
process? 3. eluviation of soluble cations from soil profile
4. illuviation of calcium carbonate in B horizon
Which soil horizon would B horizon
contain accumulated
calcium carbonate
concretions?
Besides frost wedging, 1. bioturbation
which are examples of 2. spalling of boulders from range fires
mechanical weathering?
H+ ions utilized in carbonic acid
hydrolysis weathering
reactions come from?
