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What rock forms when exposed igneous rock wears away into grains of sand?
sedimentary rock
What is the name of the process that wears away existing rock?
erosion
What process that wears down and carries away rock and its soil?
erosion
What do you think will happen if there is continued weathering?
Eventually, rock wears away into sand.
What does running water do to a rock?
It erodes it- wears it away over a period of time.
What igneous rock is at the earths surface that is weathered and wears away?
Extrusive (volcanic) and exposed plutonic igneous rock.
How dose wind cause weathering?
It can move away rock, etc.
What kind of water wears away rock?
Any kind. (There are more than one?)
How does metamorphic turns to sedemantary?
Sedimentary rock is rock that has been worn away and turned into sediment such as sand. That sediment is then compacted together and turned into rock. So metamorphic rock wears away and compacts into sedimentary rock
What isigneous rock at the earth's surface that is weathered and wears away?
Igneous rock at the Earth's surface that is weathered and wears away is called sediment. Sediment is made up of small pieces of rock that break off and erode from the original igneous rock due to weathering processes like wind, water, and temperature changes.
Where does corrasion take place?
In small notches that build up as the corrasion wears away the rock.
How are waterfalls?
The flowing water falls on the soft rock below, it wears it away and hard rock from the top of the water fall falls on the soft rock, as the hard rock falls from the top, it leaves a dent and the water wears this away, then pushing the waterfall back, wooop woopA waterfall is formed when there is a layer of hard rock and a layer of soft rock. The soft rock is eroded away first, so that the harder rock just hangs over, creating a waterfall.
