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What is the process in which soil sand and sediment are formed?
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Weathering is the process in which soil, sand, and sediment are formed.
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What is an underground area of soil sand or rock that is saturated with water called?
Sediment.
What are the different types of sediment that make up soil?
the different types of sediment that make up soils are gravel, sand, clay, and silt.
Both weathering and erosion produce?
Sediment, which is small bits of rock, soil, sand ,dead stuff....
What we called fine sand soil or mud which is carried alnog by river?
Sediment is dirt, rocks, and sand carried by a river.
What is the process by which wind water ice gravity transports soil and sediment from one place to another?
Erosion
When water from a river carries sediment or tiny pieces of sand rock or soil it leaves some of the sediment along the banks of the riverthis process is called?
Deposition
What is an underground area of soil sand or rock that is saturated with water called?
Sediment.
When water evaporates from a body of water what kind of sediment is left behind?
The sediment is a mixture of sand, soil, salts, detritus.
What are magma and sediment and how are each formed?
Magma is formed by the heating and cooling of the Earth's crust. Sediment is formed by the soil that is moved downstream from the source of a river to the mouth of the river and the resulting delta.
What is a bioturbation?
A bioturbator is an organism which carries out bioturbation - the mixing of soil or sediment by living organisms.
What are the different types of sediment that make up soil?
the different types of sediment that make up soils are gravel, sand, clay, and silt.
Both weathering and erosion produce?
Sediment, which is small bits of rock, soil, sand ,dead stuff....
How is desert pavement is formed?
It is formed by the geological process called deflation. Wind removes much of the soil and sand in an area of desert leaving behind a ground surface covered with rocks and gravel.
What is formed from rock sediment organic matter water and gases from the air?
Soil because soil absorbes water and if you look outside look at the minerals the soil has
What kind of sediment is deposited in the river delta?
Highly fertile silt. The structure of the soil particles is like sand.
Deposit of sand and soil formed at the mouth of some rivers?
delta
What are bits of sand and rock and soil formed by weathering called?
Sediments.
