Weathering processes In The UK landscape

Question 1

How is weathering different to erosion?

Answer 1

Erosion actually moves the sediment weathering left behind

Question 2

What is weathering?

Answer 2

The breakdown of solid rock by the action of weather or plants

Question 3

What are the three types of weathering?

Answer 3

Physical, chemical and biological

Question 4

What is an example of physical weathering?

Answer 4

Freeze thaw

Question 5

Give an example of chemical weathering

Answer 5

Acid rain dissolving limestone

Question 6

Give an example of biological weathering

Answer 6

Plants getting into rock cracks and breaking them

Question 7

What is chemical weathering?

Answer 7

When water reacts with calcium carbonate in rocks which dissolved and gets washed away in solution, weakening the rock

Question 8

What is biological weathering?

Answer 8

When animals or plant roots burrow into cracks in a rock, weakening it until the rock splits

Question 9

What is physical weathering?

Answer 9

When physical force is used to break a rock apart like in freeze thaw when water gets trapped in a crack, freezes and expands causing the rock to crack

Question 10

What can freeze thaw weathering cause?

Answer 10

Rock falls