Denudation Flashcards
What are the two types of weathering?
Mechanical weathering and chemical weathering
What are two types of denudation?
Weathering and Erosion
What is erosion caused by?
Moving water, ice and air
What is mechanical weathering?
Free thaw which is when the rainfalls which entere the small cracks and at night it turns to ice and expands not only the ice but the crack does to.
What is chemical weathering?
This is when the rainfall mixes with carbon dioxide and makes weak carbonic acid when meets it meets rock like limestone it dissolves because of the calcium carbonate in the rock
What is the chemical weathering also known as.
Carbonation
What happens to the effects on the karst landscape?
When weak carbonic acid meet the limestone it goes through the rock it goes to cave and lands in the cavern.
How are stalactites or stalagmites made in karst landscape?
When drops of the weak carbonic acid from the ceiling it dries and when it lands on the ground it evaporates and also dries to make stalactites and stalagmite
How are pillars made?
When stalacmites and stalagmites meet together they make a pillar.