Exam 6: Weathering and Soil

Compare and contrast the state of soil development at the following three locations: mountaintops, foothills, bottomlands.

________ and ________ are chemical weathering products created in many metal and coal mining regions and pose serious environmental hazards.

________ weathering is when there is a chemical transformation of rock into other compounds.

Which horizons make up the solum?

What erosion control practices would be best suited for a landscape with steep slopes? With gentle, rolling hills?

A cemetery in New England contains headstones from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries.Headstones from the seventeenth century are made of slate.Headstones from the mid-nineteenth century are made of marble.The information on the seventeenth-century headstone is clear and easy to read, whereas the nineteenth-century headstone is now illegible.Why? What weathering has occurred?

A burrowing animal is digging its tunnel through rocky soil, moving fresh material to the surface.How is this animal contributing to the weathering of that material?