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What causes a rock to break?
High pressure to a "rock" will make it crumble or break in pieces. sometimes erosion will cause it to break if it is weak enough.
When may a storm not produced high-energy waves?
During storms,large, high-energy waves can erode the shore very quickly. These waves can break off large chunks of rock. Many of the features of shorelines are shaped by storm waves.
How is smashing a rock physical change?
Because you are just breaking it into smaller pieces. The rock's chemical make up is not being changed.
When may a storm not produce high-energy waves?
During storms, large, high-energy waves can erode the shore very quickly. These waves can break off large chunks of rock. Many of the features of shorelines are shaped by storm waves. Is this for your homework too?ha ha it's okay I don't mind. =D
What are seismic waves that moves rock particles at right angels to the direction of the wave?
P or Primary waves are longitudinal waves that move rock particles back and forth in the same direction that the wave travels.
What causes a rock to break?
High pressure to a "rock" will make it crumble or break in pieces. sometimes erosion will cause it to break if it is weak enough.
What do waves make when they break rock into small pieces?
It's called erosion. The waves 'scrap' against the rocks and after a period of time, the rocks break up, then onto the next few rocks, and the next, and so on.
How do rocks break into smaller pieces?
You smash a rock with a bigger rock
Explain the difference between cleavage and fracture.?
Cleavage is when you can break the rock into square like pieces and Fracture is when you break a rock into uneven different shaped pieces.
How does solid rock break into smaller pieces?
Solid rocks break into smaller pieces because weathering could take bits and pieces of the rock. Then erosion carries the rock to some were else. Finally deposition will drop the rock in that place were the erosion brought it.
Water and wind can break rock into small pieces what happens to these small pieces when they break away?
become part of the soil
Why can't a delta form at a river mouth where the waves are strong?
the waves carry the sand and pieces of rock that form the delta away.
What does rock particles mean?
All of these changes break rocks into smaller pieces called rock particles
The process by which rock surfaces break down into smaller pieces by physical means?
Mechanical weathering is the breakdown of rock into smaller pieces by physical means. \o/
Smaller pieces of rock from old broken-up comets become?
Small pieces of rock from old broken up comets become asteroids. Asteroids are large moving masses that can break up into smaller pieces. They break up and form meteorites.
How do air break rocks?
The air breaks the rock when the air is strong and the small pieces of the rock carried away by it.
What natural activies work to break down rock?
water, wind, waves, and gravity
