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When rocks break into smaller pieces the exposed surface area?
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∙ 12y ago
Increases.
Like coffee beans, when broken up, more facets, edges, and surface area is exposed, allowing more air, water, etc to come into contact with the rock.
Take an orange, then scribble all over it, covering all the surface.
Now cut it in two. You now have more area to cover. Color it.
Cut each half into half again. even more area has been exposed. color it.
Each time more breaks occur, the surface area keeps increasing.
(Hope the analogy helps...)
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How does chemical weathering promote mechanical weathering?
Mechanical weathering breaks down the rock into smaller pieces, exposing more surface area. This allows the acid and chemicals to break down the pieces of rock faster.
When weathering grinding wind ice and water break rocks down into smaller pieces what are the smaller pieces called?
Sediment
What is a mixture in which a substance does not dissolve but does not break into smaller pieces?
a molecule
When you break an iron magnet into two pieces you get what?
Two smaller magnets.
Weathering and erosion break down rocks and slowly create what?
Unconformities in the rock layer. To expand: Eventually. The upper rocks have to be deposited on the original, eroded surface to create the uncomformity.
If we put pressure on ice then how can it melt?
Putting pressure on ice can melt it by helping to break it up into smaller pieces, as happens when ice is crushed. Smaller pieces have greater surface area that can be exposed to warmer air.
When granite rock is exposed to water wind or ice it can break down into smaller pieces and become what rock?
Common Granite
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"
How rocks break to smaller pieces?
By weathering.
How does chemical weathering promote mechanical weathering?
Mechanical weathering breaks down the rock into smaller pieces, exposing more surface area. This allows the acid and chemicals to break down the pieces of rock faster.
You can speed up a reaction if you break the solid reactant into smaller pieces what factor does this describe?
When you break up a solid into smaller pieces it dissolves faster when you have big pieces of the solid you have to wait for the substance that is dissolving it ti be picked up by the object that is being dissolved but when the pieces are smaller it dissolves faster because their smaller and the substance dissolving the object get picked up much faster
When weathering grinding wind ice and water break rocks down into smaller pieces what are the smaller pieces called?
Sediment
Can plants cause rocks to break into smaller pieces?
yes
What is a mixture in which a substance does not dissolve but does not break into smaller pieces?
a molecule
What is the usual result when the ocean break pebbles into smaller and smaller pieces?
Eventually sand is formed.
What happens when you break a magnet into smaller pieces?
You get a bunch of smaller magnets and you will still have north pole.
What does breakdown mean in digestion?
to break food into smaller pieces that can be eatn
