Vocab For Rocks And Weathering

Question 0

Erosion

Answer 0

The process by which water, ice, wind or gravity moves weathered rock or soil

Question 1

Weathering

Answer 1

The chemical and physical processes that break down rock at earths surface

Question 2

Uniformitarianism

Answer 2

The geologic principal that the same geologic process that operate today operated I the past to change earths surface

Question 3

Mechanical weathering

Answer 3

The type of weathering in which rock is physically broken into smaller pieces

Question 4

Abrasion

Answer 4

The gringo mg away of rock by other rock particles carried in water, ice or wind

Question 5

Ice wedging

Answer 5

Process that splits rock when water seeps into cracks, then freezes and expands

Question 6

Chemical weathering

Answer 6

The process that breaks down rock through ugh chemical changes

Question 7

Oxidation

Answer 7

A chemical change in which substances combines with oxygen, as when the iron oxidizes, forming rust

Question 8

Permeable

Answer 8

Characteristic of a material that now full of them tiny, connected air spaces that water can seep through