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| natural process that causes rocks to break down |
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| 2 main causes of chemical weathering |
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| natural acids & oxidation |
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| gravity, ice, wind, water |
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| sediments move downhill slowly |
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| forms continental & valley glaciers |
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| blows small particles from Earth's suface |
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| erosion of land by wind; can lower the land's surface by several meters |
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| breaks rocks into smaller pieces without changing them chemically |
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| mixture of weathered rocks, organic matter, water, and air that supports the growth of plant life |
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| force that pulls every object toward every other object; pulls everything on Earth toward its center |
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| rock or sediment moves downhill along a curved slope |
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| occurs as glaciers remove loose pieces of rock or as dragged rock scratches rock underneath the glacier |
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| forms pits in rocks or polishes surfaces smooth as sediments are blown by strong winds |
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| water flowing on Earth's surface causes erosion |
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| 2 main causes of mechanical weathering |
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| ice wedging & plants/animals |
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| five factors that affect soil formation |
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| parent rock, slope of the land, climate, time, organisms |
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| gravity pulls rock or sediment down slopes |
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| rock layers break loose & slide downhill |
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| valley glaciers remove rock from mountain tops forming large bowls |
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| can form as the wind is slowed as it blows around irregular features such as rock or vegetation and deposits the sediment it carried |
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| when water flows downhill as a thin sheet often carrying loose sediment grains |
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| when the chemical composition of a rock changes |
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| wearing away and removal of rock, occurs because of gravity, ice, wind & water |
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| 4 types of mass movements |
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| creep, slump, rock slide, mudflows |
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| mass of wet sediment that flows downhill over the ground surface |
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| a mixture of different sized particles ranging from clay to boulders |
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| channels cut into Earth's surface and are formed as runoff carrying sediments along |
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