Weathering
Mechanical Weathering
Chemical Weathering
Erosion
Glacial and River Erosion
100
Weather is the __________ of rocks.
What is breakdown?
100
The term for the long curved cracks in rock.
What is joints?
100

Chemical weathering is the process by which rock is broken down due to chemical interactions in the _________.

What is environment?

100
Erosion is the process by which rock is ______.
What is transported?
100
The term describing a rivers curves and bends.
What is meanders?
200
Physical breakdown of rocks.
What is mechanical weathering?
200
Weathering in which rocks peel off as sheets.
What is exfoliation?
200
Chemical weathering that occurs when rock elements combine with oxygen.
What is oxidation?
200
The process by which sediments, soil and rocks are added to a landform or land mass
What is deposition?
200
The most iconic feature of glacial erosion (Yosemite is this shape).
What is u-shaped valley?
300
Breakdown of rocks through chemical means.
What is chemical weathering?
300
When water seeps into cracks in the rock and freezes, causing rocks to break.
What is ice wedging?
300
Chemical weathering that occurs when minerals in rock chemically combine with water.
What is hydrolysis?
300
A farming method that increases the rate of erosion.
What is gullying?
300
River erosion occurs when the water is the ________.
What is fastest?
400
Another term for chemical weathering.
What is decomposition?
400
The collision of rocks resulting in breaking.
What is abrasion?
400
Natural rainwater that contains a high amount of acid.
What is acid precipitation?
400
A farming method that reduces erosion (name one).
What is contour plowing, strip-cropping, terracing, crop rotation?
400
Deposition occurs in the river when water is the _______.
What is slowest?
500
Two main factors that can result in weathering.
What is temperature change, pressure change, wind, rain ect.?
500
The term that describes when plant roots grow into rocks and causes them to break.
What is root wedging?
500
Chemical weathering that causes rock to turn red in color.
What is oxidation?
500
Gravity can result in erosion, the most dramatic being:
What is rockfalls/mudslides?
500
Glacial erosion can also cause weathering by scraping rocks against each other. This is a form of mechanical weathering called _________.
What is abrasion?
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