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Compare a rock cycle on earth's surface with a process that occurs below the surface?
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∙ 9y ago
A rock below the ground is usually only exposed to chemical weathering. A rock on the surface would be exposed to mechanical and chemical weathering and would therefore weather and erode more quickly.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 9y agoSurface rock is subject to wide variations between the heat of summer (expansion), and the freezing cold of winter (contraction). Water seeping into cracks will expand when frozen and widen the crack. Wind abrasion and rain also increases surface rock weathering.
Underground rocks avoid such extremes as underground temperatures are more stable. Water seaming through limestone bedrock will, over time, form potholes and caverns.
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∙ 9y agoThe process that occurs under the earth's surface and turns any kind of rock into metamorphic rock.
The process that occurs under the earth's surface and turns any kind of rock into metamorphic rock.
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∙ 12y agoCompare the weather processes that affect a rock on top of a mountain and a rock buried beneath the ground?
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What parts of the Rock cycle occur at the Earth's surface?
Mostly the sedimentary part which involves the process of weathering, and diagenesis occurs at the earths surface.
When the shift occurs in the earths crust the energy radiates as what?
what does the energy come out as when a shift occurs in the earths crust called
Earths weather occurs in the thermosphere?
False, it occurs in the troposphere.
What do you call the process after precipitation occurs in which water flows down heel on top of land?
Surface runoff.
What occurs when earths crust shift?
Earthquakes.
What process occurs when the sun heats water on the earths surface?
evaporation
What parts of the Rock cycle occur at the Earth's surface?
Mostly the sedimentary part which involves the process of weathering, and diagenesis occurs at the earths surface.
What is a physical process that mainly occurs above the earths surface?
Erosion, weathering
What occurs because of unequal heating of earths surface?
wind
What releases chemical weathering of rocks on earths surface?
When chemical weathering occurs on the rocks of earths surface, the earth lets out Phosphorus.Answer: Phosphorus
The earths surface where most earthquake damage occurs is called the?
Epicenter
What happens along a fault under the earths surface when an earthquake occurs?
it get weak
Which type of rock directly on the weathering that occurs on earths surface?
Sedimentary rockSedimentary rockSedimentary rock
What occurs when the plates of rock that form Earths surface slide back and forth?
An EarthQuake Accurs
What process occurs when the water falls back to earth surface?
precipation
The point on earths surface right above the spot where the first movement of an earthquake occurs is called earthquakes?
Focus
What event on earths surface occurs in the US of America more than in any other part of the world?
tornadoes
