Vocabulary
The natural dissolving or wearing of rocks or minerals in place on or near Earth's surface.
What is weathering?
The kind of weathering called when a plant's roots destroy or wear away a rock.
What is plant growth?
The fourth type of natural occurrence that easily weathers rock other than ice, wind, and gravity.
What is water?
How much per something is, in this case, how fast a rock weathers every amount of years.
What is rate?
The actions of particles being taken away by natural forces.
What is erosion?
The type of weathering when an animal causes something to happen to a rock.
What is animal actions?
When oxygen combines with hydrogen, also commonly known as rust.
What is oxidation?
The weather or temperature of the habitat/area where a rock is.
What is climate?
The type of weathering that is like a physical change.
What is mechanical weathering?
The type of weathering when water gets into a crack of a rock, then freezes and expands and widens the crack of the rock, also known as frost wedging.
What is freezing and thawing?
A gas found in air causes chemical weathering when dissolved in water, and forms a weak acid called carbonic acid, which easily weathers some kinds of rocks.
What is carbon dioxide?
When a rock has small holes or none, making the weathering and/or erosion process faster.
What is permeable/non-permeable?
The type of weathering that is like a chemical change.
What is chemical weathering?
The type of weathering that occurs when a rock is exposed at the surface and expands.
What is release of pressure?
As a plant grows, their roots make weak acids that slowly dissolve rock around the roots of the plants.
What are living organisms?
What rocks are made of, and depending on the type, will make the rock weather and erode quicker.
What are minerals?
When a rock has small holes in it, making it easier to weather and erode.
What is permeability?
The type of weathering that wears away rocks by rock particles carried by water, ice, wind, or gravity.
What is abrasion?
The burning coal, oil, and gas for energy can pollute the air with sulfur, carbon, and nitrogen compounds to react with water vapor and evaporate into the clouds.
What is acid rain?