General
What is chemical weathering?
This type of weathering involves the breakdown of rock due to chemical reactions with water, oxygen, and acids.
This physical weathering process occurs when rocks are broken apart by the growth of plant roots.
Root Wedging
This factor refers to the amount of rock surface that is directly exposed to weathering agents, such as air, water, and ice.
Exposure
What is Parent Material?
Parent material is the original rock from which the soil is created
Where do erosion agents get their fuel from?
Sun and Gravity
This type of rock weathers more rapidly due to its high susceptibility to chemical reactions with water.
Limestone
Chemical weathering is typically faster in areas with this type of climate, characterized by high temperatures and abundant rainfall.
Warm and Humid Climate
In this type of climate, characterized by high temperatures and abundant rainfall, chemical weathering processes are more pronounced. What is this type of climate?
Hot and Rainy
Put these in the correct order from top to bottom: Topsoil, Organic Layer, Bedrock, Parent Material, Subsoil
Organic Layer
Topsoil
Subsoil
Parent Material
Bedrock
What type of rocks does Gravity Erosion produce?
angular rocks
This type of weathering involves the breakdown of rocks into smaller pieces without changing their chemical composition.
Physical Weathering
When oxygen combines with another chemical to create a new substance that breaks down rocks more easily, what is the term for this chemical weathering process?
Oxidation
Physical weathering processes, such as freeze-thaw cycles, are more prevalent in this type of climate. What is the characteristic of this climate?
Cold and Moist
What is Erosion?
the process that transports sediments from place to place
Stream erosion produces what type of rocks?
small, round, smooth rocks.
This type of weathering alters the chemical composition of rocks through processes such as oxidation and hydrolysis.
Chemical Weathering
What is physical weathering?
This type of weathering involves the breakdown of rocks into smaller pieces through mechanical forces such as abrasion and pressure.
Over time, weathering processes continue to break down sediments into even smaller particles. What term describes these tiny pieces of rocks?
soil
What are some Erosion Agents?
They include- streams, wind, glaciers, ocean currents, and human activity.
Wind Erosion produces what type of rocks?
Wind erosion produces small, round, frosted rocks.
This common physical weathering process occurs when water seeps into cracks in rocks, freezes, and expands, causing the rock to break apart.
Frost Wedging
When water and carbon dioxide mix, creating an acid that dissolves the minerals in rocks, what is the specific term for this chemical weathering process?
Carbonation
air temperature increases and precipitation increases
What do erosion agents do?
transport sediments.
What causes sediments to “bump into” other rocks, causing them to weather or erode?
Sandblasting/Abrasion (Wind Erosion)