Name: ________________________________ Date: _________________
Weathering, Erosion, Soils and Mass Movement Study Guide
Directions: You may need to use a sheet of notebook paper to answer the following questions. These questions come straight from the test! Use your notes! Due on TEST DAY! 
1.
What is chemical weathering?
2.
What process involves the constant freezing and thawing of water?
3.
What are the types of mechanical weathering?
4.
What is responsible for the formation of caverns? (Hint: it is a type of chemical weathering)
5.
What type of mechanical weathering would be most common in the mountains and higher elevations?
6.
What are the types of chemical weathering?
7.
Why are some grave inscriptions (writing on the graves) hard to read? What kind of weathering is responsible for dissolving the writings? (hint: due to acid rain)
8.
What are the factors that affect the rate of weathering?
9.
Are metamorphic rocks OR sedimentary rocks more susceptible to weathering?
10.
What are the major components of soil?
11.
What is the main source of organic matter in the soil?
12.
What are “soil horizons”?
13.
What is the A horizon?
14.
What is the B horizon?
15.
What is the C horizon?
16.
How are the soil horizons arranged from top to bottom?
17.
What is the soil type that is found in Greensboro and the Eastern United States? (Pedocal/Pedalfer)
18.
Have rates of soil erosion increased or decreased compared to the past?
19.
What factors does soil erosion depend on?
20.
What is the force behind mass movements?
21.
What is a mass movement?
22.
When a block of material moves downslope, the type of mass movement is called a ______________>
23.
What force causes most erosion in deserts?
24.
What soil has the largest particles and coarse texture?
25.
Mounds of windblown silt are called ________________________.
26.
What type of weathering took place when the antacid tablet was crushed into smaller pieces?
27.
What are the similarities between erosion and weathering?
28.
What are the 3 main soil types?
29.
Be able to read the soil texture triangle! Make sure that you practice!

Name: ________________________________ Date: _________________
Weathering, Erosion, Soils and Mass Movement Study Guide
Directions: You may need to use a sheet of notebook paper to answer the following questions. These questions come straight from the test! Use your notes! Due on TEST DAY! 
1.
What is chemical weathering?
2.
What process involves the constant freezing and thawing of water?
3.
What are the types of mechanical weathering?
4.
What is responsible for the formation of caverns? (Hint: it is a type of chemical weathering)
5.
What type of mechanical weathering would be most common in the mountains and higher elevations?
6.
What are the types of chemical weathering?
7.
Why are some grave inscriptions (writing on the graves) hard to read? What kind of weathering is responsible for dissolving the writings? (hint: due to acid rain)
8.
What are the factors that affect the rate of weathering?
9.
Are metamorphic rocks OR sedimentary rocks more susceptible to weathering?
10.
What are the major components of soil?
11.
What is the main source of organic matter in the soil?
12.
What are “soil horizons”?
13.
What is the A horizon?
14.
What is the B horizon?
15.
What is the C horizon?
16.
How are the soil horizons arranged from top to bottom?
17.
What is the soil type that is found in Greensboro and the Eastern United States? (Pedocal/Pedalfer)
18.
Have rates of soil erosion increased or decreased compared to the past?
19.
What factors does soil erosion depend on?
20.
What is the force behind mass movements?
21.
What is a mass movement?
22.
When a block of material moves downslope, the type of mass movement is called a ______________>
23.
What force causes most erosion in deserts?
24.
What soil has the largest particles and coarse texture?
25.
Mounds of windblown silt are called ________________________.
26.
What type of weathering took place when the antacid tablet was crushed into smaller pieces?
27.
What are the similarities between erosion and weathering?
28.
What are the 3 main soil types?
29.
Be able to read the soil texture triangle! Make sure that you practice!