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Water gets into cracks in the rock, the rock cracks, turns to ice and expands so the rock splits into smaller pieces.. =]
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Rocks are broken down into smaller fragments by the atmosphere and other factors in the environment is called?
Erosion
What is the definition of sediment in easy words?
Sediments are small pieces of rocks that have been broken down by wind/water/ect. Sediments form sedimentary rocks.
Rocks are broken down into sediment during what?
weathering
What is the most common means of transporting weathered rock fragments down slopes?
Falling and creeping are the most common means through which weathered rock fragments move down a slope. Rocks break down as they weather.
How does hurricane affect erosion and deposition?
In a hurricane, the rocks that are hard get broken down so erosion takes the rocks away to another place. Deposition is when the settling of soil and rocks so deposition is when the broken rocks get settled down into the ground or break down further and become sand.
Rocks are broken down into smaller fragments by the atmosphere and other factors in the environment is called?
Erosion
The process by which rocks are broken down into smaller fragments by the atmosphere and other factors in the environment is called?
weathering
What type of rock when rocks are broken down into smaller fragments?
Rocks are broken down by physical or chemical weathering.
When rocks are broken down into small pieces what does it become?
Seddiment
What is small solid particles of material from rocks or organisms which are broken down by erosion or deposition is called?
Sedimentary Rock
What can rocks be broken down into?
sediment
What is the definition of sediment in easy words?
Sediments are small pieces of rocks that have been broken down by wind/water/ect. Sediments form sedimentary rocks.
Describe how rocks are broken naturally broken down into smaller pieces?
there are hundreds of different kinds of rocks rocks save for tomorrow
What rocks are broken down into sediment?
weathering
What couses whethering?
the broken down rocks
What can all rocks be broken down into?
sediment
What is the process by which the rocks of the earth are worn down into fragments and carried away is called?
Weathering and erosion.
