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Q: Is mosses growing on the surface of rocks mechanical or chemical?
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Is mosses a mechanical or chemical?

Mosses are nonvascular plants.


Contact of a rock with mosses and lichens is an example of this type of weathering?

chemical (:chemical (:


What would be the correct usage of mosses in a sentence?

When you are referring to more than one type of moss. Example: There are five different mosses growing on my lawn.


Can a moss plant grow 2 meters tall?

Mosses are about 1-10 cm tall, but some mosses can be larger.


Contact of a rock with mosses and lichens is an example of what type of weathering?

Chemical


What kind of plant has the upper surface covered with scaly porous flakes?

Mosses


Why might mosses be the only thing growing in a cleared forest?

its the oly thing left to grow


How do mosses and lichen cause chemical weathering?

By they acid in the substances it weathers the rock away.


Are the effects of acid from decaying animals a form of chemical weathering?

Lichens and mosses grow on essentially bare rock surfaces and create a more humid chemical microenvironment. The attachment of these organisms to the rock surface enhances physical as well as chemical breakdown of the surface microlayer of the rock. On a larger scale, seedlings sprouting in a crevice and plant roots exert physical pressure as well as providing a pathway for water and chemical infiltration. So, i think it is a form of chemical weathering. Or at least that was the closest answer i could find


Where would you expect to find mosses growing?

You can find mosses, linches, low-growing shrubs, and grasses in the tundra.


What is the most known tundra?

A varing amount of PermaFrost and the little amount of plants. Only mosses and low growing grasssesgrow in the Tundra.


What two characteristics do mosses liverworts and hornwort share?

There are three major groups of nonvascular plants: mosses, liverworts, and gornworts. These low-growing plants live in moist areas where thhey can absorb H2O and other nutrients directly from their enviornment