What are the two types of weathering
What is Mechanical and Chemical Weathering?
Water entering the cracks of rocks, freezing then thawing.
What is Weathering
the process that breaks down rock through chemical changes
What is a chemical weathering?
The difference between physical and chemical weathering is: A. Physical weathering just breaks things apart and chemical weathering changes the rocks forever. B. Physical weathering breaks things apart and chemical weathering burns rocks with chemicals.
What is A?
Wind blowing sand from one place to another
What is erosion.
the type of weathering in which a rock is physically broken into smaller pieces
Mechanical Weathering
Name a difference between weathering and erosion.
What is weathering makes things smaller (break it), and erosion moves it?
Wind blasting sand at rock and carving out arches
What is a weathering
What is water, oxygen, carbon dioxide, living organisms, and acid rain
Sand dunes forming at the desert
What are deposition
The building of sediment by wind, water, ice or gravity.
What is Deposition?
Name 2 types of natural agents of mechanical weathering.
What is freezing, thawing, release of pressure, plant growth, actions of animals, and Abrasion.
What is deposition