Prairie Dogs Section B

1. Prairie Dogs Section B Review

2. What is the process of breaking down parent material called? • A. Inorganic • B. organic • C. weathering • D. cover crop

3. What is the process of breaking down parent material called? • C. weathering

4. How long does it take 1 cm. of soil to form? • A. 1 to 2 years • B. 10 t0 12 years • C. 100 to 1000 year • D. no time at all

5. How long does it take 1 cm. of soil to form? • C. 100 to 1000 year

6. What causes weathering? • A. Wind and water • B. Vegetable and meat • C. To much soil being produced • D. evaporation

7. What causes weathering? • A. Wind and water

8. Why does soil form quicker in areas of warm temperature and lots of rainfall? • A. There is more soil their in the first place • Animals and plants prosper there, and die adding to the soil. • The question is not true, soil forms fast in cold areas. C

9. Why does soil form quicker in areas of warm temperature and lots of rainfall? • Animals and plants prosper there, and die adding to the soil.

10. Organic materials are…? • A. Not living organisms • B. Once-Living organisms • C. Soil used in farming • D. rocks

11. Organic materials are…? • B. Once-Living organisms

12. What is the A horizon? • A. The sun setting in the West • B. The sun setting in the East • C. The layer of good topsoil • D. The layer of rock and very hard earth

13. What is the A horizon? • C. The layer of good topsoil

14. Where does rain water go when it falls on the prairie? • A. To roots of plants and tree • B. Animals drink it • C. Runs off into ponds and streams • D. Soaks into the ground • E. All of the above

15. Where does rain water go when it falls on the prairie? • E. All of the above . To roots of plants and tree . Animals drink it Runs off into ponds and streams Soaks into the ground

16. What does inorganic mean? • A. Once-living organisms • B. Non-living organisms • C. Plants and animals • D. weathering

17. What does inorganic mean? • B. Non-living organisms

18. What is evaporations? • A. rain • B. water that is contained in a cloud • C. The process of water changing from a liquid to water vapors and disappearing into the air. • D. snow

19. What is evaporations? • C. The process of water changing from a liquid to water vapors and disappearing into the air.

20. Condensation can come in the form of…. • A. Rocks • B. Weathering • C. Clouds • D. rain

21. Condensation can come in the form of…. • C. Clouds

22. Precipitation is…. • A. Rain • B. Clouds • C. Ponds • D. Prairie plants

23. Precipitation is…. • A. Rain

24. How can a farmer prevent erosion of his fields? • A. Through cover crops • B. weathering • C. contour farming • D. Natural forming of soil • E. Both A and C

25. How can a farmer prevent erosion of his fields? • E. Both A and C • Through cover crops • Contour farming

26. What is erosion? • A. Wind picking up uncovered soil and blowing it away. • B water washing soil away • C. Crops used to protect soil • D. Both A and B

27. What is erosion? • D. Both A and B A. Wind picking up uncovered soil and blowing it away. B water washing soil away

28. What do we call hardy plants that grow in rock pieces? • A. organic materials • B. Weathering • C. erosion • D. pioneers

29. What do we call hardy plants that grow in rock pieces? • D. pioneers

30. What do plants get from animals that they need? • A. Inorganic materials • B. Evaporation • C. Oxygen and carbon dioxide • D. Nitrogen and carbon dioxide

31. What do plants get from animals that they need? • D. Nitrogen and carbon dioxide

32. What do animals get from plants that they need? • A. Oxygen, food, nitrogen • B. Inorganic materials • C. carbon dioxide • D. organic materials

33. What do animals get from plants that they need? • A. Oxygen, food, nitrogen

34. What causes the weathering of parent rock? • A. Wind, evaporation, and condensation • B Air, nitrogen, and oxygen • C. wind, ice expanding, plant roots, rain

35. What causes the weathering of parent rock? • C. wind, ice expanding, plant roots, rain