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What is the relationship between gravity and the movement of rock fragments?
Gravity pulls at the rock fragments causing them to move.
What type of rocks are created from large amounts of heat and pressure?
Metamorphic rock is created from large amounts of heat and pressure.
What is the process by which large sheets of loosened rock break away from an outcrop?
gravity
What are three main methods smaller pieces of rock move?
gravity, water, and wind
Erosion that occurs when gravity alone causes rock or sediment to move down a slope?
The type of erosion that occurs when gravity alone causes rock or sediment to move down a slope is called mass movement. The types of mass movement are creep, slump, rock slides, and mudflows.
What is the relationship between gravity and the movement of rock fragments?
Gravity pulls at the rock fragments causing them to move.
What is causing rock to move downhill?
gravity
In what does large amounts of rock loosen and fall?
a landslide
What type of rocks are created from large amounts of heat and pressure?
Metamorphic rock is created from large amounts of heat and pressure.
What are all the ways rock will move downhill?
If you put a rock on a hill, the gravity of the ground will slowly make it move downhill.
What is gravity causing rock or sediments to move downhill?
erosion
What are large masses of falling rock called?
Large amounts of fallen rock are called "talus."But Rock avalanche is a proper term, as is Rock slide, or rockfall.
Why can rock avalanches move a such great speeds?
Gravity speeds them up.
What causes rock or sediment to move downhill?
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What bodies of water erode and move enormous amounts of soil and rock.?
rivers
What does slump in science mean?
gravity causing by rock or sediment to move downhill
What is peridodite?
A hard, coarse plutonic rock that contains large amounts of olivine.
