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Weathering and Erosion

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