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1: Title
2: Essential Questions
3: What is Soil?
4: Assignment
5: Weathering the Parent Material
6: Soil Horizons
7: What Have You Learned?
8: Climate and Soil
9: Climate Zones Review
10: Climate Zones of North America
11: Physical Weathering and Erosion
12: Physical Weathering and Soil
13: Parent Materials
14: Temperature and Soil
15: Figure it out…
16: Soil Properties: Particle Size
17: Soil Properties: Texture
18: Soil Texture Pyramid
19: Key Points: Climate and Soil Composition
20: Evaluate Your Learning!
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Physical Weathering and Erosion
Erosion occurs when some physical force wears down rocks into smaller and smaller pieces.
This can take hundreds to thousands of years.
When this physical force comes from events like wind and rain, it is call weathering.
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