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What is the process in which water wind ice and heat break down rock is called what?
The process in which water, wind, ice, and heat break down rock is called weathering. Weathering involves the physical or chemical breakdown of rocks into smaller pieces.
What is the wearing away of rock by water and wind?
The wearing away of rock by water and wind is called erosion. This process occurs over time as water and wind break down and transport rock particles, shaping the Earth's surface.
What are two processes that can break down rocks?
Two processes that can break down rocks are weathering, which is the breakdown of rocks into smaller pieces by natural elements like sunlight, water, and wind, and erosion, which is the transport of these smaller rock fragments by forces like water, ice, or wind.
How water and wind breakdown rocks?
The way water and wind breakdown rocks is through erosion. This is the wearing away of the surface of the rock through continuous friction with its surface. The same amount of water (or wind) will wear away rocks of different hardness at different rates. Obviously, it would take wind a considerably longer period of time to wear down an inch of granite as it would water. On the order of millions of times.
How is rock weathered and eroded?
Rock is weathered through physical processes like freeze-thaw cycles and abrasion from wind and water. These processes break down the rock into smaller pieces. Erosion then occurs as these smaller pieces are carried away by natural forces like water, wind, or glaciers.
What natural activies work to break down rock?
water, wind, waves, and gravity
What is the process in which water wind ice and heat break down rock is called what?
The process in which water, wind, ice, and heat break down rock is called weathering. Weathering involves the physical or chemical breakdown of rocks into smaller pieces.
What is the wearing away of rock by water and wind?
The wearing away of rock by water and wind is called erosion. This process occurs over time as water and wind break down and transport rock particles, shaping the Earth's surface.
What is weathering the process in which water wind and heat break down rock?
Another word for this is erosion.
When granite rock is exposed to water wind or ice it can break down into smaller pieces and become what rock?
Common Granite
How does schist become sand?
Weathering like wind, water, or plants break down the rock turning it to sand!
What are the forces that break down rocks?
There are several ways that rock is broken down. One of these is wind. Another is water, especially the cycle of freezing and thawing.
Can rocks break down into sediment?
Wind and water
What are three forces that can break a rock?
wind water and heat i think
What is it when wind and water brake a rock down?
erosion
How does erosion differnfrom weathering?
Erosion is the removal of the topsoil either by water or wind, while weathering is the break down of rock to form soil.
What are two processes that can break down rocks?
Two processes that can break down rocks are weathering, which is the breakdown of rocks into smaller pieces by natural elements like sunlight, water, and wind, and erosion, which is the transport of these smaller rock fragments by forces like water, ice, or wind.
