Weathering and Soil Answers

The map shows the Soils of America.

What is one of the causes of mechanical weathering?

Which increases the rate of soil formation?

Which property of soil depends on the size of particles?

Which factor contributes to both chemical and mechanical weathering?

Which describes the horizons in a soil profile?

Which is one factor of rock types that affects the rate of weathering?

Which correctly lists the three parts of soil that are classified by their particle size?

Which climate favors mechanical weathering?

Which is one factor that scientists use to classify orders of soil?

Organic material provides nitrogen for plants. Which soil component contributes the most nitrogen to plants?

Which soil would most likely be found in the Arctic?

Which describes how weathering and erosion are different?

Which describes a climate effect on the rate of weathering?

Which is one property of silt soils?

Which describes the formation of Horizon B?