The type of density causes icebergs to float on water.
What is lower density?
Define Erosion
What is the moving of weathered material (seidment) from one place to another.
The process of dropping sediment in a new location
What is deposition
This type of climate causes chemical weathering to happen faster.
What are hot and wet climates
This is an example of what?
What is weathering?
An increase in what increases transpiration?
What is solar energy.
Define deposition.
Laying down, or settling, of eroded material.
What is the dropping of sediment in a new location.
This causes river rocks to be well rounded.
What is abrasion (physical weathering)
Quickly moving water in a stream causes _______ and slowly moving water ________.
When sediment is piled up on a river bend.
What is deposition?
These 2 things are the biggest reason for the water cycle.
What are energy from the sun and the force of gravity
Define weathering.
Changes in or breaking down rocks into smaller pieces
Which type of weathering occurs when animals burrow in the ground and DISPLACE soil, rocks and plant roots?
What is physical weatehring?
The reason rocks weather more rapidly in areas like New England, where they freeze and thaw frequently.
What is when water freezes it expands.
This is an example of what?
What is erosion?
What is condensation?
The process of plants releasing water vapor through their leaves.
What is transpiration?
The 2 types of weathering that happens on the earth's surface.
What is physical and chemical weathering?
What is physical/mechanical wedging?
This is an example of what?
What is deposition?
Precipitation
Condensation
Evaporation
Transpiration
Run Off
Water running off the lands surface.
What is runoff.
Suppose two people have the same kind of iron framed bicycle. One person stores their bike in the shed while the other person leaves their bike out in the rain. The bike in the rain RUSTS. What type of weathering will occur to the bike left out in the rain?
What is chemical weathering?
This type of weathering is caused by acid rain?
What is Chemical weathering?
This picture has what happening in it?