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Plant root growth can cause cracks in rock to further expand, making them more vulnerable to frost expansion and chemical attack.
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Do natural acids mechanically or chemically weather rocks?
The answer to your question is: Natural acids chemically weather rocks, hope that helped....
How do plants affect earths landform?
the plants roots sink into the rock and cracks the rock.
How do plants help to weather rocks?
Simple. The roots of a plant. Plants weather rocks by growing in small moist crevasses. As their roots expand the rock cracks. The process is very similar to the action of ice entering the crevasse or crack and freezing thus expanding the crack. Over time the rock fractures.
How are rocks and plants connected?
how are plants and rocks connected
How does the soil replace the minerals it lost to growing plants?
It replaces some a the rocks beneath it weather and crumble but the majority is replenished as the plants die and rot, releasing their minerals back into the soil.
Does wind weather rocks mechanically or chemically?
Mechanically
Do natural acids mechanically or chemically weather rocks?
The answer to your question is: Natural acids chemically weather rocks, hope that helped....
What are 3 processes that mechanically weather rocks?
rain, wind, heat
Does water break down rocks?
Water can chemically weather rocks by dissolving minerals, water can also physically weather rocks by fracturing them by hydraulic pressure or frost wedging.
How does water break down?
Water can chemically weather rocks by dissolving minerals, water can also physically weather rocks by fracturing them by hydraulic pressure or frost wedging.
What types of sedimentary rocks are there?
Physically/mechanically formed sedimentary rock, organically/biologically formed sedimentary rock, and chemically formed sedimentary rock.
How do plants contribute to mechanical weathering?
They produce acids that can weather rocks and minerals that dissolves the rocks
What are mechanically formed rocks?
Sandstone.
Are sedimentary rocks chemically weathered?
Sedimentary rocks can be both chemically and mechanically weathered.
What is the type of weathering that mechanically breaks down rocks?
Erosion
How rocks are mechanically weathered.?
Frost Wedging hiya kids!=)
What are three ways sedimentary rocks can form?
Biologically, Chemically and Mechanically.
