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Lichen. A lichen is a producer that is actually composed of two different species, a fungus and an alga. The alga photosynthesizes, while the fungus absorbs nutrients from rocks and holds water. Together they begin to break down the rock.

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What type of rock is likely to form next when extrusive igneous rock is broken down by weathering?

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What are the two ways water breaks down rock?

Water breaks down rock through physical weathering, where water expands as it freezes in rock crevices, causing the rock to break apart. It also causes chemical weathering by reacting with minerals in the rock to form new compounds that weaken the rock structure.


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Igneous Rock turns into a Sedimentary Rock using Weathering and Erosion. Weathering breaks down the rock into small sediments. Erosion takes the rock and send the sediments into another location, where they are deposited and then consolidated to form a sedimentary rock.


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The force that acts on a rock to change it is usually weathering and erosion. Weathering breaks down the rock into smaller pieces, while erosion transports these pieces to a new location, changing the shape and size of the original rock.


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This scenario demonstrates the conservation of mass. Weathering breaks down the rock into smaller pieces, but the total mass of the smaller pieces remains equal to the original rock.