Soil and Weathering Test
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This comprehensive 6th grade science test covers soil formation, weathering processes, erosion, and soil conservation with 27 vocabulary words provided. Questions include fill-in-the-blank, true/false, short answer, and extended response items on topics like mechanical weathering, the Dust Bowl, bedrock, humus, and the principle of uniformitarianism. Useful for unit tests, cumulative assessments, or homework review.
Word Bank
- abrasion
- Bedrock
- conservation plowing
- crop rotation
- Decomposers
- Deposition
- Dust Bowl
- Erosion
- fertility
- Gravity
- Humus
- ice wedging
- loam
- mass movement
- mechanical weathering
- natural resource
- oxidation
- Permeable
- sediment
- sod
- Soil
- Soil conservation
- soil horizon
- subsoil
- topsoil
- uniformitarianism
- Weathering
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