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Weathering |
The breaking of a rock by natural sources |
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Erosion |
The removal and relocation of rocks/soil by natural sorces |
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Deposition |
The deposit of minerals once they have been moved |
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What is earth surface and human structures are always under attack from |
Rocks and soil
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What is physical weathering
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The cracking/breaking and grinding down of other objects
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Temperature change
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When rocks are broken apart
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What does gravity have to do with physical weathering
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Rocks that fall or wall down slopes breaking shattering and damaging other rocks
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What is physical weathering
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Is the process of breaking down rocks as a result of changing to their mineral composition
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Water
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It will dissolve any minerals that holds its self together
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Acid rain
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Affects rocks,forest,man-made and fish to to sulfur compounds
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Oxidation |
One oxygen combines with minerals and weekends the formation of the rock
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Erosion |
Is the removal and relocation of rocks and soil from their original location
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What is deposition
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The process by which sediment settles out of the water or wind that is caring it and is deposited in a new location
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What does gravity have to do with erosion
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The force of attraction By which terrestrial bodies tend to fall toward the center of the earth
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Ocean waves |
Disturbance in the ocean that transmits energy from onc place to another |
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What is the significance of the dust bowl of the 1930s in the term of weathering and erosion |
It demonstrated the realionship between weathering erosion and the biosphere |
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Chemical weathering |
The breakdown of rocks by a chemical reactions manly by water |
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Hydrolysis |
Takes place takes place When acid rain reacts with rock forming minerals
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Sedimentary |
Rock that has formed from sediment deposited by water or air.
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Metamorphic |
is a result of a transformation of a pre-existing rock.
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Igneous |
having solidified from lava or magma.
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