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| The material moved by erosion |
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| a material that is full of tiny, coonnected air spaced that allow water to seep through it. |
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| when iron combines with oxegyn in the presence of water |
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| the process that breaks down rock through chemical changes |
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| wedges of ice in rocks widen and deepen cracks |
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| prefers to the grinding away of rock by rock particles carried by water, ice, wind, or gravity. |
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| The type of weathering in which rock particles are broken into smaller pieces. |
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a mass of rockand soil suddenly slips down a slope.
unlike a landslide, the material in a slump moves down in one large mass. |
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the very slow downhill movement of rock and soil.
Even occurs on gentle slopes. Often results fromn the freezing and thawing of water in cracked layers of rock beneath soil. |
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