Mass Movements Review

What soil horizon is commonly known as top soil and consists mostly of organic matter?

What is the fastest mass movements reaching over 200 km per hour?

The transfer of rock and soil downslope due to gravity is called:

What is a vertical section through all of the soil horizons called?

What are common factors for triggering a mass movement?

Clay, silt, and sand are three categories of what?

The important factors in soil formation are time, climate, slope, organisms, and what?

The part of the regolith that supports the growth of plants:

A process of breaking rocks through several freeze-thaw cycles:

Pedalfer forms in what type of areas?

What is this a picture of?

What mass movements of material containing containing large amounts of water and move fast?

What is the slowest of all mass movements?

Weathering produces a layer of rock and mineral fragments called:

The variation of composition, texture, structure, and color divide soil into zones known as:

What are the two factors that affect the rate of weathering?

What is the impenetrable layer that is formed in B horizon from fine clay particles from A?

The breaking of rock into smaller pieces using physical forces:

The transformation of rock into one or more new compounds is called: