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1 Layers of soil. 2 _______ has begun to erode in Horizon C.
3 When water is completely transparent. 3 The earth's crust and part of the upper mantle are
called the___________.
4 When rain carries minerals move down through
the soil. 5 This can be added to water to kill pathogens.
8 Creates the earth's magne c field. 6 If the atmosphere did not ________ the earth, the
planet's surface would reach 80C during the day.
11 Glaciers are part of this segment of the biosphere.
7 Largest type of par cle found in soil.
12 The largest layer of the earth.
9 Temperature increases rapidly with al tude in this
15 Igneous rock with large crystals.
layer of the atmosphere.
16 The highest layer of the atmosphere where
10 Meteoroids break up in the atmosphere because
temperature decreases with al tude.
of ________.
17 3% of earth's water is _____.
13 Covers 75% of the earth's surface.
21 Top layer of soil made from decomposed plants
14 Rocks which have been transformed though heat
and/or animals.
and pressure
22 Greenhouse gas.
18 Rocks formed by other rocks which have been
26 Igneous rock created by the slow cooling of eroded.
magma.
19 This is formed in Horizon A.
27 80% of the earth's air is found here.
20 Humans live in this layer of the atmosphere.
30 Igneous rock with big and small crystals.
23 Igneous rock formed by rapid cooling of lava from
31 Where plants grow. a volcano.
32 Heterogeneous mixture of different minerals. 24 When water is suitable for drinking it is called
_______.
34 Solid rock beneath the soil.
25 Igneous rock which cooled slowly in the crust,
35 Rocks which, some mes, contain fossils.
then, rapidly.
36 Top layer of soil made from decomposed plants
28 Horizon B has a high concentra on of ________.
and/or animals.
29 Smallest type of par cle found in soil.
37 ______ par cles floa ng in the air indicates that
the air is polluted. 33 Thinnest layer of the earth.
38 Silicon is mostly found in the earth's crust because 34 Excellent fer lizer for soil
of its low _______.
39 Large airplanes fly in the stratosphere because
there is less ________.