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Is weathering important for the reduction in size of rock particles?
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How does the wind change the rock?
Wind is an agent of weathering and erosion. Weathering is the breaking of rock into smaller particles. Wind moves small rock particles against other rock surfaces, weathering them. Wind will also drive water deeper into fissures, which could then freeze, causing further weathering. Wind can also cause greater wave action on shorelines, increasing weathering.
What is the grinding away of rock by other rock particles carried in water ice or wind?
Erosion by Weathering
How does weathering and erosion change a mountain made of solid rock?
Weathering breaks or dissolves the rock and erosion transports the resultant sediments to another location. The result is a gradual reduction in the elevation of the mountain.
What starts a change from an igneous rock to a sedimentary rock?
It starts with the weathering of exposed igneous rock into smaller particles over a long long period of time.
How does the amount surface area affect the rate of weathering?
The surface area of a rock has a big affect on the rate of weathering. The higher the surface area of the rock in proportion to its overall mass will result in a quicker rate of weathering of the rock.
How does weathering affect soil?
Weathering would create a finer textured soil by breaking small rock particles into smaller rock particles.
What is the result of all mechanical weathering and why is it important?
The end result of mechanical weathering is smaller rock particles. The breakdown of rock into smaller and smaller particles is important because it provides material and nutrients in soils on which most land plant growth relies. We, in turn, rely on plant organisms as part of the food chain.
What are the effects of weathering rocks?
The general effect of weathering is the creation of smaller and smaller rock particles.
What is the breakdown of rock into smaller particles from the effects of wind water or ice?
Possibly weathering
How does weathering change a rock?
particles of its minerals are carried away
What is soil produced by?
Mainly by the weathering and erosion of particles of rock.
Does chemical weathering produce rock particles from the same rock they came from?
yes it doexs
What is it called when rivers pick up tiny rocks from parent rocks?
Weathering is the reduction in size of the parent rocks. Erosion is the movement of the rock particles to a different location, in this case, via river water.
How does the wind change the rock?
Wind is an agent of weathering and erosion. Weathering is the breaking of rock into smaller particles. Wind moves small rock particles against other rock surfaces, weathering them. Wind will also drive water deeper into fissures, which could then freeze, causing further weathering. Wind can also cause greater wave action on shorelines, increasing weathering.
Does chemical weathering produce rock particles with the same mineral makeup as the rock they came from?
No it just dissolves
What is the grinding away of rock by other rock particles carried in water ice or wind?
Erosion by Weathering
How does weathering and erosion change a mountain made of solid rock?
Weathering breaks or dissolves the rock and erosion transports the resultant sediments to another location. The result is a gradual reduction in the elevation of the mountain.
