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Water and wind can break rock into small pieces what happens to these small pieces when they break away?
become part of the soil
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.
Weathering and erosion break igneous and other types of rock into smaller pieces called what?
Sediments
Rivers and glaciers can do what to fragments of rock?
They break them up into smaller pieces of rock (eventually all the way down to sand or other fine pieces of earth) and/or smooth their rough edges in a process called weathering.They move them down-flow in the process known as erosion.The rock particles which are carried by the rivers and glaciers will ultimately be deposited when the water or ice can no longer transport them. After deposition, they may eventually become sedimentary rock, through the processes of lithification (compaction and cementation).
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
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 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/
What can you call sand mud and small pieces of rock?
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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 are tiny pieces of broken rock?
it is call lemstorne
When rocks are eroded they break down into smaller pieces of rock and minerals called?
Sediment.
