Freeze thaw action, water freezing expands in volume and puts pressure on the crevice in rock face.
it weakens rocks and cause them to break in shape and size and not form
plants and animals
abrasion.
Two forms of mechanical weathering are frost heaving and plant root wedging. All forms of mechanical weathering result in the breakage of rock into smaller size particles.
well it is very hard to break up bedrock, but the main process that does is weathering. You have two seperit kinds of weathering. The first one is Chemical Weathering. Chemical weathering is when weathering effects the exterior. two examples are rust and leaching. The second type of weathering is Mechanical Weathering. This effects rocks physically. two examples are abrasion and erosion.SO THE MAIN ANSWER WOULD BE WEATHERING. THE TYPE OF WEATHERING, MECHANICAL WEATHERING, THE PROCESS, ABRASION (well there is more than that but that is the most common situation)
Liquid and ice. Ice causes mechanical wedging that breaks up larger rocks until they are small enough to be removed from the source area by rushing water and deposited in a lower-energy environment.
mechanical weathering
When two rocks rub up against each other, pieces of the rock wear away. This is called abrasion.
Ice wedging and, plants + animals
Two forms of mechanical weathering are frost heaving and plant root wedging. All forms of mechanical weathering result in the breakage of rock into smaller size particles.
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Two forms of mechanical weathering are frost heaving and plant root wedging. All forms of mechanical weathering result in the breakage of rock into smaller size particles.
Therew is only to types of weathering in my knowledge and they are Mechanical and Chemical (in scientific term). Mechanical is also know as physical.
If you want to draw something of mechanical weathering like me then i got the idea for you draw a rock with cracks and a concrete house with no roof at the top mechanical weathering
The 2 kinds of weathering are the Mechanical or Physical Weathering and the Mechanical Weathering.
The 2 kinds of weathering are the Mechanical or Physical Weathering and the Mechanical Weathering.
two examples of mechanical weathering are called wind ,and water.
Temperature changes make rocks expand and contract and it is one of the important cause of mechanical weathering. Water abrasion is the other important cause. Wind and moving water cause rocks to rub against each other and the rocks could well break into smaller pieces.
Mechanical weathering and Chemical weathering
chemical and mechanical weathering :P