Mechanical weathering
Whats a way you can describe Mechanical weathering?
When a physical process naturally breaks rocks into smaller pieces. If you said something similar you will still get points.
Whats the defenition of Chemical weathering
If you said Changes the materials that are part of a rock into new materials or something similar to that then you are right.
The mechanical and chemical process that change objects on Earth's surface over time are called what?
Weathering
Whats the average weather of an area?
Climate
Do acids increase or decrease the rate of chemical Weathering more than rain or water does
It increases
Layers or soil formed from the movement of the products of weathering.
Horizon
Small holes and spaces are?
A pore
What is the pH of a solution on a scale of.
0 to 4
What is the shape and steepness of the landscape
Topography
Rock materials that has been broken down or dissolved in water
Is a Sediment
Another process that causes chemical weathering is what?
Oxidation
What is the remains of something that was once alive.
Organic matter
All of the organisms that live in a region are called?
Biota
Animals that live in soil create holes in soil where water can enter causing what?
Weathering
The starting material of soil is what?
Parent material
What combines the elements oxygen with other elements or molecules
Oxidation
Acid forming chemicals enter the air from natural sources like what?
Volcaneos