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by dissolving it, by getting into cracks and freezing, and by simple friction (wear).
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What can erode soil?
Water, ice, wind, and gravity; the agents of erosion.
Does a mountain erode?
Mountains erode continuously. Erosion may be by water (rain or rivers), ice (glaciers) or wind.
What are destructive forces that act on mountains to erode them?
Water ice or wind
What are the destructive forces that act on mountains to erode them?
Water ice or wind
Using the rock cycle what has to happen for an igneous rock turn into a sedimentary rock?
An igneous rock would need to weather and erode, the sediments transported by wind, water, ice, or gravity to a place of deposition where they would undergo compaction and cementation, thus creating a sedimentary rock.
How does ice and water change the land?
Ice and water changes the land by causing rocks and soil to erode. Both ice and water will create cracks in rock and can even create mountains or river beds.
How does nature erode and and deposit rock?
Water erodes small rocks by flowing over them,, ice glaciers drag rocks with them.
What type of rock is water proof?
no rock is water proof if a rock get hit with water it does erode so no rock is water proof
What can erode soil?
Water, ice, wind, and gravity; the agents of erosion.
What are thick masses of ice that erode rock and move sediment called?
These are glaciers.
How do glaciers move boulders?
As a glacier or ice sheet moves, it can erode bedrock. The ice can then pick up, or entrain, the eroded rock. As the ice flows, it transports the bedrock debris in the direction of flow.
Does a mountain erode?
Mountains erode continuously. Erosion may be by water (rain or rivers), ice (glaciers) or wind.
How do you put erode in a sentence?
erode is a noun. Wind and water erode rock. past tense- eroded The Colorado River eroded the Grand Canyon
What are destructive forces that act on mountains to erode them?
Water ice or wind
What are the destructive forces that act on mountains to erode them?
Water ice or wind
How can water erode materials?
Water seeps into cracks and breaks apart the rock or water rubs the side of the rock that is exposed and breaks off pieces of the rock.
What are 4 things that erode weathered rocks?
ice, water, wind, gravity
