Khloe Begeman
what is the prosses of braking down rocks called ?
weathering
name given to the changing of rock to diffrent types
the rock cycle
Exfoliaton is mechanical weathering that occures when sheets of rock peel away ( true or false )
True
the proses of frezing water in the crack of a rock and expanding to push the rock up is called frost heaving (true or fales) and (if its fales whats the correct anwser
false (under)
Abrasipn is mechaical weathering that occur when rockes rub agaainst each other. (true or fales)
true
oxidation is chmimical weathering that contains a solution fo acidsthat weather rocks.(true orfales)and ( whenits false say the correct anwer
fales acid rain
loose materials at the srufece of the eath are
soil
multiple layers of soil are
horizons
unweathered rock that determines the texture of the soil above it is
bedrock
contains weatherd minerals and some nuteries from the humus is
subsoil
small partikles produuced by weathering is called
sediment
when weathered materilal mover from one place to another is when ______________takes place (fill in the blank)
erosion
_________occuers when wind ,water and ice drops rockes in a new location. (fill in the blank)
Deposition
the sediment that a stram carres is called ___________
load
A _______ is an area of sediment rich in nutriens that has been deposetid at the mouth of a river ( fill in the blank)
delta
when gravity pulls huge slabes of rock down a mountian
rock slide