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What is the name given to the type of rock from which a soil forms?
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What rock forms from older rocks and plants?
Soil.
Write the name given to soil deposited at the mouth of a river?
The name given to soil deposited at the mouth of a river is called silt. The mouth of a river is called a delta.
What is granite bedrock?
Bedrock is the rock that underlies the soil and sediment of an area. Granite is a type of igneous rock that forms when silica-rich molten rock cools and solidifies underground.
Are rock and soil elements?
No. Rock and soil are mixtures.
Wind and water are important causes of what?
-- Structural deterioration.-- Stunted vegetation.-- Soil erosion.-- 'Weathering' of rock and land forms.
This forms when rock erodes?
Soil
What forms when rock erode?
sediments
What forms when Rock's break down?
soil
What name is given to the mass movement of rock and soil downhill due to gravity?
This is known as a landslide.
What rock forms from older rocks and plants?
Soil.
What happens when a tree forms inside a rock?
The rock will turn to fertile soil.
Name given to rock or soil that can hold water?
There are many but porous and aquifer are perhaps the most obvious.
What term describes the area of bedrock from what soil forms?
parent rock
WHAT IS The measure of how easily water can travel through soil and rock?
Permeability is the name given to this characteristic. Maybe preceded with 'Water' if appropriate.
Are rock soil and minerals a form of matter?
Yes, they are all forms of matter.
How does soil evolve?
Soil forms as rock is broken down by weathering and mixes with other materials on the surface. Soil is a mixture of rock particles, minerals, decayed organic material, air, and water.
What kind of rock forms sandy soil?
Any type of rock, it just depends on the erosion by natural forces.
