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What Is the process that breaks down rock into smaller fragments?
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The name of the process is 'weathering', and is accomplished by means such as freeze/thaw cycles, chemical reactions with rain and groundwater, actions of animals, and abrasions with water, ice, or wind driven particles.
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What is the process known as where rock breaks down into smaller and smaller pieces?
weathering
What is abraison?
The process of wearing down or rubbing away fragments.
How are fragments transported and abraded?
There are a few different ways. By the current in the water. By explosive volcanic eruptions. By erosion and wind. By gravity. By glaciers. By icebergs. By human/animal movement. By meteor impact. By landslides.
Rocks are broken down into smaller fragments by the atmosphere and other factors in the environment is called?
Erosion
What is the process of carrying away rock fragments by water wind ice?
erosion - the process of weathering and transportation. Weathering is breaking the rocks down into smaller pieces through physical, chemical and biological processes which include water wind and ice. Erosion is breaking them down AND moving them. Hope this helped
What is the process known as where rock breaks down into smaller and smaller pieces?
weathering
Does Trypsin break down proteins?
no, something else, but i can't figure out what.
The process by which rocks are broken down into smaller fragments by the atmosphere and other factors in the environment is called?
weathering
What process breaks down the complex molecules of food into smaller molecules?
Digestion.
Metabolic process that breaks down larger molecules into smaller ones?
Catabolism
A general process which breaks down large molecules into smaller ones?
The process that breaks up molecules into smaller units is called catabolism. Large molecules, such as nucleic acids, are broken down into smaller molecules, such as amino acids.
Which cells secrete Pepsin?
Pepsin is a digestive enzyme released by the chief cells in the stomach. It breaks down proteins into smaller fragments to prepare the body for digestion.
Describe why weathering is important to erosion?
weathering breaks down rocks, which makes the sediment easy to be transported
Which process breaks down large food molecules into smaller molecules using enzymes?
Chemical digestion
What process breaks down granite into sediment?
The process that breaks down granite into sediments is weathering.
What does uranium emits while it breaks down?
Fission fragments, neutrons, gamma radiations; and all the radiations emitted by these fission fragments.
Why does most weather occur?
weather changes occur in a slow process. weathering breaks down rocks into smaller pieces.
