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What happens to rocks when water freezes and melts over and over again?
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What happens to dirt and rocks when ice melts?
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What happens when water seeps into rocks and freezes?
It cracks the rock
What happens when water freezes in the cracks in rocks. plant grow into the cracks in rocks?
The ice expands in the crack and may split the rock, as will eventually the roots of a plant.
Heat marble chips what happens?
It melts after an extensive amount of heat, otherwise nothing else similarly to other rocks.
What happens when water that settles into cracks of rocks freezes?
Water expands when it freezes, therefore it tends to cause the rocks to crack (or perhaps I should say, it causes existing cracks to get larger, leading to the disintegration of the rock).
What happens to dirt and rocks when ice melts?
hi
Water freezes in the cracks of rocks and plants grow into the cracks of rocks what happens?
cracks open wider
What happens during ice wedging?
when water freezes, it expands. when water freezes in cracks and pores of rocks, the force of its expansion is strong enough to split the rocks apart.
What happens first rocks break apart or water fills tiny cracks in rocks and freezes or ice pushes against rocks?
All rocks have cracks in them. If water fills the cracks and freezes, it expands and pushes the rock apart.
What happens when rock freezes and thaws repeatedly?
Rocks cannot freeze but the water inside them however can If this happens repeatably the water gradually creates cracks in the rock and every time it freezes again it widens this crack, eventually the rock can split into many pieces, this is known as the freeze thaw effect .
What happens when water seeps into rocks and freezes?
It cracks the rock
What happens when soil and rocks are added to the sides and bottom of a glacier after water freezes and thaws in the surrounding rock?
erosion
What happens when water freezes in the cracks in rocks. plant grow into the cracks in rocks?
The ice expands in the crack and may split the rock, as will eventually the roots of a plant.
How are rocks made into walls and benches?
The rock melts and the builder harderns it again They put the rocks into the walls and benches then done (comment me if i got something wrong)
Heat marble chips what happens?
It melts after an extensive amount of heat, otherwise nothing else similarly to other rocks.
When waves enter small cracks and holes in rocks along the shoreline what happens to the rocks?
The water continuously freezes and thaws eventually splitting the rock into pieces creating sand.
What happens when water that settles into cracks of rocks freezes?
Water expands when it freezes, therefore it tends to cause the rocks to crack (or perhaps I should say, it causes existing cracks to get larger, leading to the disintegration of the rock).
