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True or false? Gravity causes water to flow from higher to lower ground.
True
True or false? Runoff causes erosion.
True
Weathering due to????
acid rain
when a cliff is eroded on both sides by waves forming a hole, this forms
arch
sediments frozen to the bottom of a glacier scrape the underlying rock
abrasion
True or false? An earthquake can trigger a landslide.
True
True or false? Landslides cause a tiny amount of damage compared to other natural disasters.
False
True or false? Slump creates crescent-shaped scars.
True
Wind-blown sand polishes rocks in a process known as:
Abrasion
Breaking down rocks is known as:
weathering
freeze-thaw is chemical, biological or physical?
physical
Burrowing animals weather chemically, biologically, or physically?
biologically
Acid rain breaks down rocks chemically, biologically, or physically?
Chemically
A process that breaks up rocks, but does not change the chemical composition of the rock.
physical weathering
