Unit 4 Study Guide

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What is chemical weathering?

What is mechanical weathering?
What is frost wedging, unloading, exfoliation, and spheroidal weathering?
What has the greatest effect on soil formation?
What determines soil texture?
What are three things that determine the rate of soil erosion?
What are mass movements?
What are the types of mass movements?
What are three things that could trigger mass movements?
What determines a streams ability to erode and transport material?
What is the single most important erosional agent on Earth?
What are glaciers? Where do they form?
What are deserts?
What is the main type of weathering is deserts?
What are ephemeral streams?
How are mountains classified?
What are the major types of mountains?
What are the proportions of clay, silt, and sand at the following points A, B, C