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What is:
Breaking down of rock material through physical or chemical means.
Weathering
What is:
The moving of weathered Earth materials.
Erosion
What is the strongest agent of Erosion?
Water
When limestone is dissolved underground you get this formation .
What is a cave
Process in which surface materials are worn away and transported from one place to another by agents such as gravity, water, wind and glaciers
What is deposition
What is:
The placing of Earth materials in a new location.
Deposition
Physical processes that break rock apart without changing its chemical makeup
Mechanical weathering
Smallest particle of an element
What is an atom
A type of erosion caused by runoff that occurs when water flowing as sheets picks up sediments and carries them away
what is meander
No shape, no volume
What is gas
What is physical/mechanical weathering?
The breaking up of rock materials without altering the chemical makeup of the rock.
Occurs when chemical reactions dissolve the minerals in rocks or changes them into different minerals
What is chemical weathering
What is ice wedging?
Water freezes and expands inside cracks within rocks forcing the rock apart
Occurs when some materials are exposed to oxygen in the air.
What is oxidation
What is moraine?
material left behind by a glacier
What are three agents of erosion?
Moving water, gravity, wind, moving ice.
Everything is made up of what?
What is matter
What is a type of erosion that occurs when wind blows over loose sediments, removes small amounts of particles, leaving rougher sediments behind?
What is Abrasion
What is wind deflation?
When the wind picks up small particles of Earth and carries them high into the air.
What is the difference between a landslide and a mudslide?
How might plants be an agent of weathering?
Roots might split apart rocks, fallen trees could break rocks, etc.
How might animals be an agent of weathering?
Animals often scratch apart rocks to make habitats.
The loss of water-soluble plant nutrients from the soil, due to rain and irrigation.
What is leaching.
What is the main factor that will determine whether or not wind and water will be a major factor of weathering and erosion in a given area?
How much vegetation/plant life there is in the area.
The symbol for potassium is?
What is K