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| the movement of rock partacles by wind, water, ice, or gravity. |
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| the process that breaks down rock and other substances at earths surface. |
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| the type of weathering in which rock is physically broken down. |
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| grinding away of rock by rock particals carried by water, ice, wind or gravity. |
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| wedges of ice in rocks widens and deepens then it cracks |
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| process that breaks down rock through chemical weathering. |
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| the material is full of tiny, connectedair spaces that alow water to seep through it |
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| lose weatherd material earths surface in wich plants can grow |
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| soil layer of rock under the soil. |
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| dark colored substance that forms as a plant and animal remains decay |
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| soil that is made up about equal parts of clay, sand, and silt. |
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| layer of soil that differs in color and texture from layers above or below |
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| crumbly, dark brown soil that is a mixter of humus, clay, and other substances. |
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| usualy consistis of clay and other particals washed down from the A Horizin, but little humus |
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| plants shed leaves, they form a loose layer |
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| Organisms that break the reamins of dead orginazims into smaller pieces and digest them with chemicals |
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| thickest mass of tough roots at the surface of the soil |
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| one thing that is Naturally replaced in a relativty short time. |
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| wind erosion caused servere loss of top soil during the 1930s |
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| Managemint of soil to prevent its destriction |
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| pratice of plowing fields along the curves of a slope. |
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| disturbs the soil and its plant cover little as possible |
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