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Plant root growth can cause cracks to further expand, making them more vulnerable to frost expansion and chemical attack.
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What can happen to rocks as plants grow?
Their roots grow and expand to create pressure that wedges rocks apart.
What effect do roots have on rocks?
Certain plants are able to get their roots into cracks in rocks. As the plant grows, the thickening roots may force the crack to widen. That, and the expanding ice in winter, may crack the rock wide open.
Is acids from plants roots that break up rocks a mechanical reaction?
It is chemical and mechanical both
What effects do plants' roots have on rock?
Certain plants are able to get their roots into cracks in rocks. As the plant grows, the thickening roots may force the crack to widen. That, and the expanding ice in winter, may crack the rock wide open.
What does tree roots have to do with biological weathering?
The roots of plants and trees can face joints and cracks in rocks thus causing it to break up into smaller fragments
How do plants affect earths landform?
the plants roots sink into the rock and cracks the rock.
How do rocks effect plants?
Plants roots are surprisingly strong. They can break into rocks with there roots and break them apart.
What are organisms that have roots that can crack rocks?
Plants are the organisms which have roots and can crack rocks
How do plants help to weather rocks?
Simple. The roots of a plant. Plants weather rocks by growing in small moist crevasses. As their roots expand the rock cracks. The process is very similar to the action of ice entering the crevasse or crack and freezing thus expanding the crack. Over time the rock fractures.
How do plants help weather rocks?
Simple. The roots of a plant. Plants weather rocks by growing in small moist crevasses. As their roots expand the rock cracks. The process is very similar to the action of ice entering the crevasse or crack and freezing thus expanding the crack. Over time the rock fractures.
How do plants dissolve?
Plants can weather rocks by having its roots grow, often squeezing the rock into so many little pieces, it can technically be considered "dissolved".
How are mechanical and chemical weathering affected by plants?
to be honest in mechanical weathering plants grow their roots in the cracks of rocks. In chemical weathering plants grow their roots in the cracks of rocks, and the roots release acid that weathers away the rock.
Describe weather due to plant root growth?
trees, bushes, and other plants may take root in cracks in rocks. as the roots of these plants growth, they wedge open the cracks.
How do plants break rocks into smaller pieces?
plant roots grow into cracks in rocks
Why do plants struggle to grow in hard rocks?
because the rocks are hard and the plants can't mack their roots to go throw them
How can trees and other plants cause weathering?
they cause it by their roots growing into rocks and breaking up the rocks. After the rocks have been broken up by trees and plants' roots, water and air will wash it away, and eventually dissolve it.
How can tree roots weather rocks?
Tree roots weather rocks because the roots go so deep under the ground that it can crack the rocks and then the rocks will eventually wear away when the water comes through from the ground.
