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Practice Questions
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What is soil?
💡 Hint: Think about what makes up soil.
Name one agent of weathering.
💡 Hint: Consider what elements can break down rocks.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What is the primary discipline concerned with the study of soil as a building material?
💡 Hint: Think about the field that deals with construction.
True or False: Chemical weathering only breaks down rocks into smaller pieces.
💡 Hint: Consider what happens when minerals react with water.
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Challenge Problems
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Given a set of soil samples with varying particle sizes, predict how transport conditions (wind, water, ice) might affect their sorting and classification.
💡 Hint: Think about how each agent of transport interacts with different sizes of particles.
Discuss and analyze a real case of soil failure in an engineering project. What soil characteristics might have contributed to the failure?
💡 Hint: Consider the relationship between soil properties and engineering design.
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