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What process breaks solid rock into smaller pieces?

Weathering and erosion breaks rocks into smaller pieces.


What breaks down rocks into smaller pieces?

erosion


What breaks rocks into smaller and smaller pieces?

Rocks erode from mainly wind and water over time.


What is the slow process that breaks rocks into smaller pieces is called what?

The slow process that breaks rocks into smaller pieces is called weathering. This can happen through various mechanisms like physical weathering (e.g. freezing and thawing, root wedging) or chemical weathering (e.g. oxidation, hydrolysis).


Soil is formed from blank?

Soil is formed from rocks. When weathering breaks down rocks into smaller and smaller pieces you will get soil. This process takes thousands and thousands of years.


What are smaller pieces or rocks and minerals called when eroded?

Sediments


When rocks are eroded they break down into smaller pieces of minerals and rocks called what?

Sediment.


What process breaks rocks down into smaller pieces?

The process called weathering is responsible for the breaking up and wearing away of the Earth's rocks. The broken up rocks are then carried away by the process of erosion.


What Is the process of breaking down of rocks into smaller pieces?

It is actually called weathering, but if your talking about the process of rocks breaking down into smaller pieces by physical means it is called Mechanical Weathering, by chemical means it is called Chemical Weathering.


Why does most weather occur?

weather changes occur in a slow process. weathering breaks down rocks into smaller pieces.


When rocks eroded they break down into smaller pieces of rocks and minerals called?

Sedimentation


What is the cycle called when freezing and thawing breaks rocks apart?

The cycle is called frost weathering or freeze-thaw weathering. It occurs when water freezes in the cracks of rocks, expands, and breaks them apart as it thaws. Over time, this process can contribute to the mechanical breakdown of rocks into smaller pieces.