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The water can be chemically attacking the minerals contained in the rock, or be the medium which carries abrasive rock particles which weather solid rock. The power of moving water can tumble rocks into each other, rounding them and reducing their size, in the same principle as a rock tumbler. Crashing waves can pound into rock cliffs, reducing them to rubble, where they can be further weathered by the previously mentioned water effects. Pressures caused by freezing and thawing water in rock fissures will also reduce rock size.
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What is the agent of rock particles that wear away rock?
Water, Waves, Glacier and Wind.
What can wear away the solid rock of a cliff over time?
ocean waves but not a small stream
What type of rock can wear away to form sediment?
Any rock can wear away to form sediment; be it sedimentary, metamorphic or igneous.
Where a river flows from an area of harder rock to an area of softer rock the softer rock may wear away eventually forming a drop called a?
Water fall
What is the carrying away of the naturally broken down materials called?
When wind or water wear away a rock, the process is called "erosion".
What can wear away the solid rock of a over time?
ocean waves but not a small stream
In the rock cycle water and weather wear away rock by the process of?
Weathering.
What makes rock particles wear away?
Constant erosion from wind and water makes the rock wear away. It's how canyons and mountains were formed.
What is the agent of rock particles that wear away rock?
Water, Waves, Glacier and Wind.
Rock particles wear away rock?
Abrasion is when rock particles are wearing away from the rocks surface. This is done by wind, water, and ice in nature.
How does water moves rocks?
The force of moving water alone can wear away particles of rock.
How erosion can wear away cliffs?
the water hits the rock and wears it down
Can water can help wear away bits of surface rock?
yes, the force of the currents can slowely wear it down
How does moving water weather rocks?
The force of moving water alone can wear away particles of rock.
What can wear away the solid rock of a cliff over time?
ocean waves but not a small stream
Where a river flows from an area of harder rock to an area of softer rock the softer rock may wear away eventually forming a drop?
Water fall
How can a rock wear away?
By the water scraping along it so often that little bits come off.
