What is the link between weathering and making sediment?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: Weathering breaks down rock into the components that form sediment. Clastic sediment consists of the minerals and rock fragments remaining from physical weathering and newly formed mineral grains produced by chemical weathering. Chemical sediment consists of minerals precipitated from water. The ions composing these minerals are generated mostly by chemical weathering reactions.
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A. biomanufacturing B. environmental sustainability C. environmental economics D. biomimicry E. eco-industrialization
Within the zone of saturation, groundwater flows from the region of ____________________ pressure
to the region of ____________________ pressure. Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
How many moles of oxygen are consumed during the complete combustion of one mole of ethanol?
A) 1 B) 2 C) 3 D) 4
Find the stationary front located in northwestern Canada. The likely air mass to the west of the stationary front is a ________ airmass which is likely to be ________ than the air mass to the east.
A. mT; warmer B. cP; warmer C. cP; cooler D. mP; warmer