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What would you see in the C-horizon of a soil?
Partially weathered bedrock.
What combines with particles of weathered bedrock to make the fertile soil of the Midwest?
Remains of plants and animals
What are three layers of soil in earth's crust?
they are called the 3 horizons Horizon A : topsoil Horizon B : subsoil Horizon C : weathered bedrock
What physical characteristic of the bedrock are responsible for the oldest rock remaining at the highest elevation?
The weathered rock are left over and the new ones have to protect the old bed rocks.
What is soil mostly made of?
weathered rock
What is in weathered parent rock?
soil is in weathered parent rock
How does weathered bedrock help with people's survival?
It doesn't.
What would you see in the C-horizon of a soil?
Partially weathered bedrock.
Rock horizons in order?
A - Topsoil B - Subsoil C - Weathered Rock Bedrock
Soils formed on bedrock are termed?
If you are asking for the name of such soils, they are soils formed in residuum, or residual soils. Typically, the soil profile grades into a degraded bedrock called saprolite, with depth, before hiyting hard bedrock.
How are bedrock and soil different from each other?
the difference between the two is that bedrock is a type of rock usually an area of broken and weathered unconsoiled with a basal subsoil.
What term denotes the true soil above the zone of partly weathered bedrock?
Top soil.
What combines with particles of weathered bedrock to make the fertile soil of the Midwest?
Remains of plants and animals
Bedrock?
Is a solid layer of rock lying beneath Earth's soil layer. Bedrock: Is the source of rock and mineral fragments that make up soil. Is not weathered if it is not exposed to wind and water.
True or false erosion is the transportation of weathered pieces of bedrock through the agents of wind water and gravity?
True
What is the loose material on earths surface that contains weathered rock particles and humus?
It is false that the loose material on Earth's surface that contains weathered rock particles and humus is bedrock. The loose weathered material on Earth's surface in which plates can grow is soil.
What are all the layers that make up the soil in an area?
The layers of soil in an area are the topsoil, subsoil, weathered rock and bedrock.
