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Weathering is the breaking down of rock into smaller and smaller particles. Weathering processes include frost wedging, acid rain dissolution, root growth, wind particle abrasion, heat expansion cracking, hydraulic fracture, and rock tumbling in rivers and streams.

Erosion is the movement of weathered material from one place to another place through the agents of erosion: wind, water, ice, and gravity. nice answer

In tandem, weathering and erosion act to lower the high points, and raise the low points on the surface of the planet.

Weathering is different from erosion because weathering is the breaking away of rocks but erosion is when weathered rock and soil move from one place to another.

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Weathering is the breakdown of rock into a regolith. Erosion is the removal of that regolith by wind, ice or water.
weathering is part of erosion

there are two types of erosion

mechanical and chemical.

chemical refers to elements such as oxygen and Iron which cause a chemical change such as rust and oxidation

mechanical weathering is when rocks or materials are separated by water mass movement etc

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