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Weathering is the breaking down of rocks, soils and minerals as well as artificial materials through contact with the Earth's atmosphere, biota and waters. Weathering occurs in situ, or "with no movement", and thus should not be confused with erosion, which involves the movement of rocks and minerals by agents such as water, ice, wind, and gravity.
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Do plant roots cause mechanical weathering?
Plant roots cause Biological weathering which is indeed Mechanical in its nature. Animals burrowing is also a cause of Biological weathering.
What type of weathering does plant cause?
Biological. General rule, anything alive which causes weathering is biological weathering.
What kind of plant causes mechanical weathering of a rock?
any plant
Is moss chemical or mechanical weathering?
Moss is biological weathering, actually, because it involves a plant.
What are the cause and effect of the weathering and erosion?
what are some causes and effects of weathering
Freezing and thawing plant roots exfliation and are all examples of what process?
Physical weathering or mechanical weathering.
How can nature change the rock cycle?
By weathering and erosion. The types of weathering used is:physical weathering- when a plant grows inside a rock and the roots break it apart; abrasion- mechanical weathering - erosion- and chemical weathering - acid rain, water weathering and erosion.
What is plant waethering?
Plant weathering is when seeds drop in rock/germinate the rock will expand in width.
What plants help in weathering of rocks?
one of it is the lichen plant
Plant roots that force cracks in rocks are an agent of what?
mechanical weathering
What could be a source of chemical weathering?
a coal fired power plant.
Physical weathering example?
Like plant-roots,wind,and temperature.
