Erosion
What are the four agents of erosion?
Water, wind, glaciers, and gravity.
True or False?
The breakdown of rock caused by living organisms such as plants, animals, bacteria, and fungi, is biological weathering.
True?
True or False: The forming of glaciers is a sudden change.
True.
What are some examples of sudden change?
Flash floods, landslides, rock slides, etc.
What are the large rocks that are left after glaciers melt called?
Moraine
What is Erosion?
the natural process of soil and rock being worn away and transported by agents like water, wind, and ice.
Is this example of weathering mechanical weathering or chemical weathering?
Tree roots cracking the sidewalk.
This example of weathering is mechanical weathering, because there is no change in its chemicals.
What is abrasion?
Abrasion is when the wind wears down rocks.
How does Erosion occur?
when natural forces like water, wind, ice, and gravity wear away and transport soil, rock, and other materials across the Earth's surface.