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Because it's cold and dry and chemical weathering usually happens in warm and wet areas like the tropical areas
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Which would dissolved more quickly chemical or mechanical weathering?
mechanical
How weathering processes affected the development of an area?
The weathering process is affected by climatic conditions. Moist and warm climates favor chemical weathering, while moist, cold climates favor physical weathering. In dry climates, weathering is slow. Would you expect to find any chemical weathering on a rock from the moon? The rate of the weathering process is affected by particle size.
How are physical weathering and chemical weathering similar?
It would be easier to say how they are different. Both physical and chemical weathering can cause pitting, erosion of material and degradation of optical properties, making glass surfaces less reflective or transmissive.
What process creates tiny particles from bedrock?
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)
What effect would a warmer climate have on the rate of chemical weathering?
The rate would increase, assuming similar rate of precipitation.
What occurs as the results of a rocks exposure to a chemical?
The answer will depend on what the chemical is! A rock exposed to nitrogen, under normal temperature and pressure will be no different from what it would be otherwise!
In what locations would you expect to find chemical weathering instead of mechanical weathering?
Chemical weathering is prevalent in tropical climates.
Is iron lawn furniture rusting outside mechanical or chemical weathering?
It would be a chemical change.
What would chemical weathering be most effective in?
Chemical weathering is the most effective in hot and dry climates. This is because this climate accelerates and intensifies the chemical weathering.
Chemical weathering would be most effective in what climate?
Chemical weathering is the most effective in hot and dry climates. This is because this climate accelerates and intensifies the chemical weathering.
What type of weathering would sanding a rough board to make shelves be?
chemical weathering
What type of change would slow the chemical weathering of the soil?
Ice wedging would help slow chemical weathering and make the soil more fertile.
Would minerals dissolving in water be a form of mechanical or chemical weathering?
Chemical.
In which one of the area would you expect to find chemical weathering of a opposed to mechanical weathering?
Panama
Mechanical weathering or erosion is more rapid in what type of climate?
There are many types of mechanical weathering, some due to climatic conditions, some not. Excluding non-climatic causes, mechanical weathering such as plant root growth, would be assisted by tropical conditions which encourage plant growth and root hydraulics. In desert regions, weathering is more rapid under conditions of high wind, which causes abrasion of rock surfaces. In areas that experience hot/cold alternating temperatures, frost wedging and thermal stress will contribute to rapid mechanical weathering. The type of rock being exposed to agents of mechanical weathering would also play a part in the speed at which the weathering takes place, as some rock varieties are more easily mechanically weathered than others.
Does the Atacama Desert experience physical weathering or chemical weathering?
Since it rarely rains in the Atacama, nearly all weathering would be physical weathering caused by the wind.
When acid rain breaks down rocks by reacting with their minerals what type of weathering would this be an example of?
chemical weathering
