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Water in the cracks in rocks expands as it converts to ice crystals.
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Can weathering have an effect of the breaking down of rocks?
Weathering and rain and ice are the cause of the breaking down of rocks
The breaking down and changing of rocks at or near earth's surface is called?
Weathering.
How does soil contribute in breaking down rocks?
Soil doesn't really contribute to the breaking down of rocks soil is the end product of the breaking down of rocks. Rocks are broken down by weathering processes such as physical weathering, chemical weathering or biological weathering the material after the rock breaks down combined with organic material creates soil.
What is the breaking tilting and folding of rocks is called?
This is called weathering
What are facts about weathering?
the breaking down of rocks by snow,water,and glaciers
Can weathering have an effect of the breaking down of rocks?
Weathering and rain and ice are the cause of the breaking down of rocks
What type of weathering is in breaking of rocks?
Physical weathering.
Breaking down of rocks?
Weathering.
The breaking down of rocks by wind and water is?
The breaking down of rocks is weathering. Their movement from one place to another place is erosion.
What is the prosess of weathering?
Weathering is the breaking down of rocks into smaller pieces .
What is the breaking apart and changing of rocks?
Weathering.
The breaking down and changing of rocks at or near earth's surface is called?
Weathering.
How does soil contribute in breaking down rocks?
Soil doesn't really contribute to the breaking down of rocks soil is the end product of the breaking down of rocks. Rocks are broken down by weathering processes such as physical weathering, chemical weathering or biological weathering the material after the rock breaks down combined with organic material creates soil.
What is the breaking up of rocks in to sediments called?
weathering
How animals become the agent of weathering?
by scratching the rocks
What is different between physical weathering and chemical weathering?
Physical weathering is breaking down of rocks by weather that does not change their chemical components. Chemical weathering is weathering that breaks rocks down by a chemical change.
What is the shifting and breaking of the rocks?
do you mean Weathering, Erosion, and deposition
