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what are layers of soil?

horizons

what is the largest kind of particle in soil?

sand

what contains weathered minerals and some nutrients from the humus?

subsoil

what forms when unmelted snow gets compacted down into ice?

glacier

what is the process of breaking down rocks?

weathering

what is a pile of rocks and soil deposited by a glacier

moraine

what is an example of erosion that is caused by gravity?

rockslide

what is decayed organic material found in soil?

humus

what is an area of sediment deposited at the mouth of a river

delta

what is the dropping of sediment and rocks in a new location?

deposition

what is a fertile soil that has equal parts of sand and silt combined with about half as much clay?

loam

what are small particles of weathered rocks and minerals?

sediment

what occurs whenever rocks rub against each other?

abrasion

what is the process of wind picking up loose sediment and carrying it away?

deflation

what changes rock into new substances?

chemical weathering

what is unweathered rock that influences the soil above it?

bedrock

what is the process of rock changing from one type to another

the rock cycle

what is the sediment that a stream carries?

load

what is the primary force behind erosion?

gravity

what is the amount of each kind of particle in a soil sample

texture