Weathering and Soil Chapter 2
Dec 31, 2015
Uniformitarianism is the geologic principle that the same geologic processes that operate today operated in the past to change Earth’s surface.
Erosion is the process of wearing down and carrying away rocks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53lMdHzvGCQ
Mr. Parr Song: Rock Cycle (No facts)
The type of weathering in which rock is physically broken into smaller pieces is called mechanical weathering.
Abrasion refers to the wearing away of rock by rock particles carried by water, ice, wind, or gravity.
Permeable means that a material is full of tiny, connected air spaces that allow water to seep through it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6ctGm0nrns
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Xv1DoqkARQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2311yO5opVk
Bill Nye the Science Guy (5 facts)
Mr. Parr Weathering and Erosion Song (No facts)
8G - Rocks and weathering (2 facts)
The pH scale measures acidity.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIz2YPBXuZU
How to Use pH test strips (2 facts)
A soil horizon is a layer of soil that differs in color, texture, and composition from the layers above or below it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx2wVHeiTKE
Mr. Parr Soil Layer Song (no facts)
The A horizon is made up of topsoil, a crumbly dark brown soil that is a mixture of humus, clay, and other minerals.
The B horizon, often called subsoil, usually consists of clay and other particles of rock, but little humus.
Decomposers are the organisms that break the remains of dead organisms into smaller pieces and digest them with chemicals.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLk-9ib0OVA
Mr. Parr – Decomposers Song (no facts)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ego6LI-IjbY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Xv1DoqkARQBill Nye the Science Guy 12:25 (5 facts)
Soil Stories – The Whole Story (Day 1 – 5 facts / Day 2 – 5 facts)
A natural resource is anything in the environment that humans use.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qajjl3esi5E
Soil: Greatest Natural Resource Video(No facts)
Soil conservation is the management of soil to limit its destruction.
Science - Soil Erosion and Conservation Video (3 facts)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHyK2M8yiQE
In crop rotation, a farmer plants different crops in a field each year.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9YDlcKG4rA
What is crop rotation? Video(No Facts)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeNA6XdMoF8
Crop Rotation Made Simple: Video(3 facts)
In contour plowing, farmers plow their fields along the curves of a slope instead of in straight rows.
In conservation plowing, dead weeds and stalks of the previous year’s crop are plowed into the ground to help return soil nutrients, retain moisture, and hold soil in place.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSRmFSKBypI
Don’t call it dirt. (3 facts)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NDUga9jJYg
The Plant Doctor (2 facts)
Official San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Construction Time-Lapse (no facts)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDUIYZKlknk