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I consider that this is a physical process.
The breaking down of rocks has to do with a process called erosion. Erosion happens over a long period of time, but it can do tremendous rock damage when it's done! Erosion is caused by weather or the ocean. For instance, the sea laps up on a cliff face for years, and then finally breaks off part of, or the whole cliff face.
Weathering makes rocks at the top of a cliff suddenly fall.
Plants can contribute to weathering by a tree growing in the cracks of a rock then its roots will eventually run out of room therefor it pushes steadily against the rock until it breaks and so on.
That's not a chemical. We call that "gravity."
The type of weathering that occurs along ocean cliffs is mainly mechanical weathering, caused by processes such as waves crashing against the rocks, causing them to break apart and erode over time. Chemical weathering can also occur due to the saltwater and other chemical reactions taking place along the cliff face.
Chemical weathering causes a face to form on a cliff.
I consider that this is a physical process.
It is a physical change.
chemical ----------- I consider that this is a physical process.
It can hollow out caves and make cliff's fall away.xx
A cliff on a coast will experience the most weathering due to wave action.
Weathering can break up rocks on a slope or cliff. Then gravity will then pull the weathered rock down the slope or cliff. Erosion is the moving of weathered rock. Gravity would be moving the weathered rock down the slope or cliff.
Weathered cliffs are formed as natural rain storms or snow and ice cause parts of the cliffs to break off and fall. This weathering also includes erosion caused by water passing from the top of the cliff to the bottom.
erosion is when the ground erodes and moves sediment from one place to another. Weathering is when like waves break off rocks from a cliff or something. There kinda alike but they are different too
I looking at this for hw right now and I'm currently on physical weathering. I have found things such as weathering of sand and rocks along the coast lines due to salt crystallization. Rocks in the ocean are smoothed out and crushed by the constant motion of the ocean. And cliff sides are deteriorated and smoothed out in pieces by waves slamming against them.
The breaking down of rocks has to do with a process called erosion. Erosion happens over a long period of time, but it can do tremendous rock damage when it's done! Erosion is caused by weather or the ocean. For instance, the sea laps up on a cliff face for years, and then finally breaks off part of, or the whole cliff face.