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Key Points in this Chapter
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KEY POINTS IN THIS CHAPTER
• Weathering can be mechanical or chemical. Most weathering is actually chemical in nature.
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• Acidic water tends to support more weathering than alkalinic water.
• Temperature, climate, time, acidity, and topography all factor into weathering rates.
• Soils are what lie upon the bedrock and are the parts of earth that support nutrients and water needed to grow things.
• There are taxonomic orders used to define the different soils.
• You should know the difference between sandy, clay, silt, loam, peat, and clay soils and what works for which types of growing.
• Weathering can concentrate ores that can then be mined more economically in different parts of the world.
