Weathering And Erosion Flashcards

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What is physical weathering ??

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Breaking down rock physically it involves with rock being scraped, warn down, or split apart

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What does weathering mean ???

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Breaking down rock

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What is Chemical weathering ??

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Changing the cemical composition

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What is Erosion ??

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Sediment move to place to place

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Sediment

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Bits of rock

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Composion

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What something is made of

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Abrasion

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When a surface is scrape and worn down by friction

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Water abrasion

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When water in a stream lifts small rock and move them down stream

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Ice wedging

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Water seep into cracks in the rock freezes and expanded

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Glaciers

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A large body of moving ice

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Oxidation

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Water reacts to the iron in the rock and it form rust

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Solution

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minerals desolved in water and get carry away

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Deposition

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The process in which eroded materials sediment Is put down

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Sedimentation

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Bulit up

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Erratic

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A rock or Boulder that is diffient form the other

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Moraine

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The hill or till

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Drumlins

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When mounds of till is left over look like an egg or spoon

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Till

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Glacial sediment

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Kettle holes

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When block of ice break apart and the ice melts and leave a hole