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What is the soil on mercury like?
sandy
Is soil made from rock?
No but there's rock in it. soil is made from many things. decomposed plants and animals, rocks, sand, and lots of other things. glad i could help
Are rock and soil elements?
No. Rock and soil are mixtures.
What happens to the water between the grains when they are pushed together?
If the question has to do with the environmental process of soil liquefaction, the water between the grains stays were it is, which causes the soil grains to lose friction and therefore makes it act as a liquid.
What layer of the earth is made up of solid rock soil and minerals?
The second layer
What type of Soil made up of powdery grains of rock?
clay
What happens to phosporus that erodes from rock and soil?
the grains of the rock
What is a mixture of weathered rock and organic matter called?
If the rock has been eroded into grains, then the mixture is known as top soil.
What is the soil on mercury like?
sandy
How can drought cause erosion?
Drought dries the soil. Soil gets powdery because it is so dry. Wind blows powdery soil away. This is only one form of erosion.
Is soil made by rock?
soil is crushed rock. so is sand and clay
Were sand dunes made by glaciers?
No. Sand dunes are typically made by the wind, blowing lightweight grains of sand and soil. Glaciers created several types of landforms, including moraines and drumlins, out of a wide range of particle sizes, from rock grains to boulders.
What layer of the earth is made of rock and soil?
regolith, outer layer of the earth is made of rock and soil.
Is dirt a mineral?
A typical soil is over 90 percent mineral, made of tiny fragments of broken-down rock. Take a close look at some soil-better yet, rub some between your fingers-and you may notice tiny grains of quartz, feldspar, and shiny mica, or pearly dolomite, or dark basalt from lava flows. When soil is poor, you can often blame the parent-parent rock, that is. A soil's parent rock is the rock from which the soil formed, and it determines the nutrient richness of the resulting soil.
What is an abiotic part of an ecosystem made of rock and water?
Soil
Powdery wind-blown soil pulverized by glaciers is called?
Loess
Does rock and soil made of elements?
noo
