Created by Muhammad Aziz
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Question | Answer |
What is weathering? | The process were the rocks are broken down by the environment |
How does temperature effect the rocks? | Rapid tmperature shift can cause the rocks to break |
How can water effect weathering? | Water can slip into the cracks of the rocks and freeze, the ice created expands and the rock can break |
What do salts do? | They make it so that their chemicals create crystals inside the rock, breaking it because of pressure |
How can gases weather rocks? | By changing the chemicals in the rocks |
How do acids make the rocks weather? | By dissolving them |
How can water affect the erosion of rocks? | By the water diluting the chemical structure of the rocks |
What is erosion? | Small particles broken of rock that is moved by rivers |
Why does the Leaning Tower of Piza lean? | Because the soil is soft and gradually gives way |
What is sedimentation? | The process of which eroded rock land on top of eachother and bond to make |
What is the texture? | The size of the particles in the soil |
What is the structure? | How well the soil particles join up |
What is the water holding capacity? | How much water the soil can hold |
What is permeability? | How fast the water can enter the soil |
What is consistency? | It is like the elasticity of the soil and how much pressure the particles can take before they break |
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