Weathering
This type of weathering changes a rock's size, shape, and/or appearance.
What is mechanical weathering?
Erosion is considered this type of force.
What is destructive?
Deposition is considered this type of force.
What is constructive?
This landform is not found in Florida but can affect Florida by rising sea levels.
What are glaciers?
This type of rock forms from cooled magma or lava.
What is igneous rock?
This type of mechanical weathering works hand in hand with friction.
What is abrasion?
This natural disaster is an example of erosion in action.
What is a landslide?
This landform is created by the deposition of sediments at the mouth of a river as it empties into another body of water.
What are deltas?
This landform is not created by erosion or deposition but can be affected by them both.
What are mountains?
This must happen to any rock before it can become a sedimentary rock.
What is weathering?
This type of chemical weathering causes rust to form on metals.
What is oxidation?
This material is picked up and moved by agents of erosion.
What are sediments?
This landform is created by wind deposition.
What are sand dunes?
This landform provides natural protection for coastlines against storm surge, flooding, and high waves.
What are sand dunes?
This rock may have layers and imprints of fossils inside them.
What is sedimentary rock?
This type of chemical weathering mostly affects limestone and marble, and is important for cave formation.
What is carbonation?
This agent of erosion and deposition can lead to landslides.
What is gravity?
This is considered the greatest agent of erosion and deposition on Earth.
What is moving water?
This landform is also an agent of erosion and deposition.
What are glaciers?
These two types of rocks are most likely to be found underground.
What are intrusive igneous and metamorphic?
How fast a rock weathers depends on these four factors.
What is surface area, mineral hardness, environment, and age?
Erosion can be prevented by doing this.
What is planting vegetation?
Coastal deposition can lead to the formation of this type of landform.
What are deltas, spits, sand bars, barrier islands, or tombolo?
Florida has more of this type of landform than any other state in the contiguous United States.
What are coastlines?
This is the only type of rock that can form without requiring a pre-existing rock.
What are igneous rocks?