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- Comparing basalts from New Mexico and Maryland, why do they look different?
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____________________________________________________________________________________________________ - What influences how rocks weather?
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____________________________________________________________________________________________________ - Why did El Morro engravings last so long?
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____________________________________________________________________________________________________ - What tombstones preserve inscriptions the worst over time?
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Why? _________________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________________ - What would be the best tombstone rock type?
____________________________________________________________________________________________________ - What is physical weathering?
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____________________________________________________________________________________________________ - What is chemical weathering?
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Frost Wedging
- What happens in parallel cracks in rock when water gets in?
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Exfoliation
- What is exfoliation?
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____________________________________________________________________________________________________ - How does it happen?
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Dissolution
- What is dissolution?
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____________________________________________________________________________________________________ - What is the name of the most common rock that easily dissolves?
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____________________________________________________________________________________________________ - What is the chemical formula for carbonic acid?
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____________________________________________________________________________________________________ - Define an acid.
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____________________________________________________________________________________________________ - How do we measure acid levels?
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Oxidation
- What are the easiest rocks to oxidize?
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Hydrolysis
- What is hydrolysis?
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____________________________________________________________________________________________________ - Name the most common type of rock that undergoes hydrolysis.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________ - What do the feldspars weather to?
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Plants & Animals
- What is bioturbation?
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____________________________________________________________________________________________________ - Define a chelator.
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____________________________________________________________________________________________________ - What do chelators move through the soil?
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Soils
- What are the 4 main soil horizons and describe them. (4pts)
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____________________________________________________________________________________________________ - Describe the O and E horizons. (2pts)
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