Types of Weathering
This type of weathering involves breaking down rocks without changing their chemical composition.
What is Mechanical Weathering?
This natural force is responsible for creating sand dunes in the desert.
What is Wind?
The main difference between weathering and erosion.
What is weathering breaks down rocks, and erosion moves them?
These are formed when a meandering river gets cut off after reaching all the way around.
What are Oxbow Lakes?
Cutting down too many trees can increase this type of erosion.
What is Soil erosion?
Rust forming on rocks containing iron is an example of this type of weathering.
What is Chemical Weathering?
The primary agent responsible for carving out the Grand Canyon.
What is Water?
Erosion typically requires this to move materials.
What is Energy?
This river was caused to twist and turn by sediment and the water hitting the river bank
What are meandering rivers?
Building this along coasts can prevent erosion but may also disturb natural sediment movement.
What is a Seawall?
Plant roots growing into cracks in rocks and breaking them apart is an example of this.
What is Biological weathering?
This frozen agent of erosion can move large rocks and form U-shaped valleys.
What is a Glacier?
The process where sediments stop moving and settle in a new location.
What is Deposition?
These V-shaped landforms are carved out by flowing rivers over long periods.
What are River Valleys?
Farming practices that leave soil bare and unprotected can lead to this 1930s U.S. disaster.
What is the Dust Bowl?