What is it?
Name That Weathering!
Name That Mass Wasting!
Chemical or Mechanical?
Deposition
100
A change in the composition of rocks.
What is chemical weathering?
100
Repeated freezing and thawing of water in the cracks of rocks.
What is frost wedging?
100
The force that causes mass wasting.
What is gravity?
100
Plants releasing acids onto rock surfaces.
What is chemical?
100
Created by wind.
What are sand dunes?
200
The physical break down of rocks.
What is mechanical weathering?
200
Rocks scraping against each other and other things.
What is abrasion?
200
The slowest form of mass wasting that causes tree trunks to end and telephone poles to tilt.
What is creep?
200
Water freezing in cracks of rocks.
What is mechanical?
200
Sorted piles of sediment left by a glacier.
What is till?
300
The dropping off of sediment.
What is deposition?
300
Iron, Oxygen, Water mixing
What is Oxidation?
300
A very fast form of mass wasting in which a rock falls from a cliff.
What is rock fall?
300
Plants growing into cracks in the rock.
What is mechanical?
300
Created as a river hits flat land after running downhill.
What is an alluvial fan?
400
The movement of sediment.
What is erosion?
400
Plants growing into cracks in the rocks.
What is Root Wedging?
400
Mass wasting in which land moves downhill on a curved or scooped path.
What is slump?
400
Caused by carbon dioxide released into the air causing air pollution. Creates acid precipitation.
What is chemical?
400
Unsorted piles of sediment left by glaciers.
What is moraine?
500
Rocks rolling down a hill.
What is erosion?
500
Caused by pollution - causes the chemical breakdown of rocks.
What is acid precipitation?
500
Very fast moving erosion in which rocks tumble down a hill causing other rocks to fall as well.
What is rock slides?
500
Animal burrowing in the ground letting in air and water.
What is both mechanical and chemical weathering?
500
Created as a river runs into a large body of water.
What is a delta?
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