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What is the most important agent of mechanical weathering?
water
What are two examples of the mechanical weathering?
two examples of mechanical weathering are called wind ,and water.
What is the agent in mechanical weathering where the sun or forest fire causes rock to crack?
"heat" alone is an inadequate explanation. the agent is water or moisture acted on by variations of temperature
How do you use mechanical weathering in a sentence?
Mechanical weathering means erosion by physical means.Wind and water are examples of mechanical weathering.Mechanical weathering changes rock into sand.
What is Wind and water are agents of?
Wind and water are agents of erosion
What is the most important agent of mechanical weathering?
water
How can gravity act as an agent of weathering?
If you drop a rock and it breaks into pieces, then that is an act of mechanical weathering.
What is the three mechanical weathering?
ice,water,and weathering
Plant roots that force cracks in rocks are an agent of what?
mechanical weathering
What are two examples of the mechanical weathering?
two examples of mechanical weathering are called wind ,and water.
What is the agent in mechanical weathering where the sun or forest fire causes rock to crack?
"heat" alone is an inadequate explanation. the agent is water or moisture acted on by variations of temperature
How do you use mechanical weathering in a sentence?
Mechanical weathering means erosion by physical means.Wind and water are examples of mechanical weathering.Mechanical weathering changes rock into sand.
What is Wind and water are agents of?
Wind and water are agents of erosion
What is called when rocks break down without changing in chemical composition?
Mechanical weathering.
How rocks are mechanically weatherd?
When rocks are broken down without any change to their chemical compositions it is mechanical weathering. Causes of mechanical weathering are Freezing and melting of water, Abrasion, when the rock is weather by an abrasive agent such as wind and sand, and exfoliation occurs when a rock is brought to the surface.
Halite in rocks dissolving in water is a mechanical or chemical weathering?
it is chemical weathering
Does a cold climate help mechanical weathering?
No. mechanical weathering is the breaking and separating of rock or other materials. In order for mechanical weathering to occur you need water or some kind of mass movement. the only erosional agent which works with mechanical weathering are creep and solifluction, but mechanical weathering itself cannot happen because if it is too cold the frost wedging cannot happen becasue the water would freeze in contact and would not expand
