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What is another word for small pieces of soil that are carried in erosion?
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Particulates in wind erosion, or the "load" in water erosion, are called sediment.
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Another word for cut or chop?
Chop is a kind of cut, generally featuring repeated, forceful short strokes and resulting in many small pieces.
What is the name for small pieces of information?
Data
What is the adjective in 'young raccoons play with small pieces of wood'?
young and small
What is another word for a small copy?
small copy = miniature
How do you spell spaulling for concrete?
Spalling: To break into fragments or small pieces."Spalling can be described as the breaking of layers or pieces of concrete from the surface of a structural element when it is exposed to the high and rapidly rising temperatures"
What is the process that happens when small pieces of sediment are carried away?
It is the process of erosion, carried out by the agents of wind, water, ice, and gravity.
What is the process by wich wind and water remove and carry small pieces of weathered rockfrom one place to another?
"erosion"
When does erosion occur?
Erosion occurs when a rock is carried away from where it was weathered. It makes the rock fragments rounded and small.
When water ice or wind remove small pieces of rock?
Erosion
How can erosion be harmful?
Erosion is harmful because when acid rain hits rock it slowly eroded away bits adn pieces of the rock into small pieces if sediment........................................ .........................................................................................................and its good
Which region of the Caribbean was formed from small continental pieces that were carried by the Caribbean plate as it moved away from Africa?
the question can also be stated: As the Caribbean plate moved away from Africa, it carried small continental pieces with it, and those pieces became the islands of the ______? and the correct answer is Greater Antilles
What is the name of the process that breaks large pieces of rock into small piece of sediment?
its called weathering, or erosion
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 process breaks rocks into small pieces to become soil?
the process in which rocks are broken down into soil is, :weathering.
How is wind erosion different then water erosion?
In one, the sediments are carried by the wind and are usually fairly small. In the other, the sediments are carried by moving water and the sediment size can be quite diverse.
What can you infer about the type of erosion that formed the grand canyon?
a river
What is another spelling for weather?
to break down in small pieces of rock.
