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| Occurs when chimical reactions dissolve the minerals in rocks or change them into diffrent minerals. |
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| Weather pattern that occures in a particalar area over many years |
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| Dark colored,decayed organic matter that supplies nutrients to plants and is found mainly in topsoil. |
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| Mechanical weathering process that occures when water freezes in the cracks of rocks and expands, cousing the rock to break apart. |
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| Removel of minerals that have been dissolved in water. |
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| Phisical process that breaks rocks apart without changing thier chimical makeup can be caused by ice wedging, animal and plant roots. |
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| Chemical weathering process that occures when metallic material is exposed to oxygen and water over time. |
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| Mixture of weathered rock,decayed,organic matter,mineral fragments,water and air that can take thousands of years to develope. |
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| Mechanical or chemical surface process that break rocks into smaller and smaller pices. |
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| Process in which surface matierals are worn away and transported from one place to another by agents such as gravity water wind and glaciers. |
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| A type of erosion that occures when wind blows over loose sediments removes small particales and leaves coarers sediment behind. |
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| Droping of sediments that occure when an agent of erosion such as gravity a glacier wind or water losses its energy and can no longer carry its load. |
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| Mound formed when windblown sediments pile up behind an obstical common landform in desert areas. |
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| Any type of erosion that occures as gravity moves matierals downslope. |
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| A type of mass movement that occures when a mass of materials moves down a curved slope. |
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