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The water get to cold and freezes the rock fomring them to not move at all.

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Q: What is a weathering agent in which frozen water causes rocks to break down?
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What occurs when an applied force causes rock to break?

Mechanical weathering occurs when an applied force causes rock to break.


Does weathering cause rocks to build up?

No it doesn't because weathering causes rocks to break down not build up.


What causes the rate of weathering to differ?

Weathering can break away less resistant parts of the rock and leave behind the more resistant parts.


Is weathering the process by which rocks on or near earths surface break down and change?

The change undergone is physical only. The definition of weathering is the wearing away of rocks in situ. Weathering causes the rocks to "break down", but mostly not to chemically change (the exception being limestone in acid rain).


How do trees causes mechanical or physical weathering?

The trees' roots break through rock as they move through the soil.


What physical processes produce fertile soil?

Some of the physical processes that can produce fertile soil are the various types of rock weathering. There is mechanical weathering and thermal weathering that causes rocks to break down into soil particles.


What causes the serpentine belt to break on a 1987 Buick LeSabre?

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How would a frozen paintball hit a oak tree?

because freezing causes brittleness, it would break.


What natural event could have caused something as hard as a rock to break?

Any form of mechanical weathering causes rock to break into smaller pieces. A landslide will definitely cause rock to break. Meteor impact, plant root growth, ice wedging, and the movement of animals will also cause weathering.


How does weathering break rocks?

Weathering breaks up the rock by rubbing parts of old rocks against it, this causes the rock to break up into tiny pieces and it rubs agaist other rocks. it continues on for a looong time... however it take a long time for it to break up the rock. hope it helps!!


How does weathering differ from erosion?

Weathering is a change that causes something to break down or worn away due to exposure to one or more weather elements (wind, rain, heat, etc.) over a period of time. Erosion is a change that causes something to break down or worn away due to natural processes over a period of time. Weathering is considered to be one of these natural processes that fit the definition of erosion.


What surface process works to break down rock?

Weathering from mechanical and chemical means is the process that causes rocks to become smaller and smaller; wind, rain, the sun, the freeze/thaw cycle, moving glaciers, chemical reactions, and gravity are some of the causes of weathering.