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- Reclamation
- Rebuilding an area
- Quick
- Lava that cools this way forms glass
- Strato Volcanoes
- Tall volcanoes such as Mount St. Helens
- Soil Creep
- Wet soil goes down a slope. Common along Big Mtn. Road
- Minerals
- Repeated chemical formula
- Frost Wedging
- A type of mechanical weathering where a structure breaks apart and frost forms in the cracks.
- Fusion
- Future energy source
- Sphalerite
- Makes zinc
- Active solar
- More technologically intensive type of solar resource.
- Cinder Cone
- Most violent, Wizard Island, Crater Lake
- Radiation
- Like the sun on your face.
- Oxygen and silicon
- Two most abundant elements in the earth's crust
- The Great Swampy Forests
- Provided coal in the old days.
- Right
- As the periodic table goes in this direction bondability goes down
- Batholiths
- Beartooth, Idaho, Boulder
- Suspended Load
- Sand, dirt, silt clay. Light particles transported along stream beds.
- Solid
- Definite volume, definite shape
- Noble Gases
- Don't bond
- Rotational Slump
- Like a spoon scooping ice cream
- Transpiration
- Evaporation; part of the water cycle
- Earthquake
- Triggers a landslide
- B Horizon
- Fragments of parent material, leach minerals, concentrated soil.
- Mafic Lava
- Lava that is magnesium rich, dark colored, and non-violent
- Iron Pyrite
- Another name for fool's gold
- Carbon
- The element that diamonds and graphite is composed of
- Deposition
- Weather, erosion, ----
- Dust, ash, cinders, blocks, bombs
- Order of volcanic emissions in terms of size
- Liquid
- Definite volume, indefinite shape
- Halite
- This mineral tastes like salt. The chemical formula is NaCl and it is isometric
- Youthful streams
- Steep gradient, waterfalls/rapids, V-shaped valleys
- Fast
- Lava that cools this way forms crystals
- Headward erosion
- Lengthens gullies in an uphill direction
- Isotopes
- An element that has a different number of neutrons
- Cross-bedded sandstone
- This type of sandstone is deposited by winds and water
- Peat
- Like coal, least developed
- Oxidation
- O2 combines with iron to form rust or iron oxide. Iron bearing rocks get flakey in wet environment.
- Lode deposits
- Found in bedrock. Have to mine for it.
- Hot Spot
- Place that is not a plate boundary where volcanoes form
- Hexagonal Columns
- Lava flow breaks into these
- Silicates
- 96% of earth's crust
- Riparian Areas
- In what areas are prevention, ownership, and streamside management important?
- Subduction Zone
- Place where continental/oceanic plates collide with oceanic plates
- Mature Streams
- Low gradient, meanders, cut banks
- Silicates, rock-forming, metal ores, gems
- Four types of minerals
- Willow Creek Anticline
- Water, oil, natural gas found here
- Triclinic, isometric, hexagonal
- Three types of crystals
- Carbonation
- CO2 dissolves in water, carbonic acid, acid dissolves limestone
- Exfoliation
- Popping apart - weathering
- Coal
- A sedimentary rock. Organic.
- Winds
- The trades and the westerlies are types of these
- Wind energy
- Most developed resource in MT
- Argon
- Noble gas
- Gas
- Indefinite shape and volume
- Ions
- Charged particles. If you take off electrons the charge is positive.
- Barometer
- Measures air pressure
- Placer deposits
- Found in streams
- Clay, silt, sand, gravel, cobbles, boulders
- Particle sizes
- Alluvial fan
- Fan-shaped deposits of water-transported material
- Bauxite
- Element that makes aluminum
- Glacial Abrasion
- A type of mechanical weathering in which the top of a glacier melts and slides down it
- Diorite Sill
- Found in Glacier National Park. Forms marble from contact metamorphism
- Felsic Lava
- Lava that is silica rich, light colored, and explosive
- Diatomic molecule
- The same element repeated twice
- A Horizon
- Fine textured, organic rock, fertile, dark colored, humus rich soil.
- Bed Load
- Boulders and cobbles. Only at peak flow.
- Intrusive and extrusive
- Types of igneous rocks
- Convection
- Movement of hot air
- Obsidian
- Quickly-cooling lava
- Dynamic Equilibrium
- The state that all streams seek to achieve
- CO2 SO2
- A sign that volcanoes are becoming active is that --- goes down and --- goes up
- C Horizon
- Fractured parent material only, could be bedrock or valley fill material.