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| occers when chemical reacations dissolve the minerals in rocks or change them into differant minerals. |
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| weather patterns that occers in a area over many years |
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| dark colored decayed organic matter that supplies nuterients to plants and is mostly found in the topsoil |
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| mechanical weathering process that occers when water freezesin the cracks of rocks and expands, causeing the rock to break apart |
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| removal of minerals that have been dissolved in water |
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| physical prosses that breaks rocks apart without changeing |
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| chemical weathering process that occurs when metallic materials 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 develop |
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| mechanical or chemical serfce processes that break into smaller and smaller pieces |
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| process in which surface materials are worn away nd transported from one place to another by agents such as gravity, water, wind, and glaciers |
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| a type of erosion that occurs when wind blows over loose sediments,removfes small particals, and leaves coarser sediments behind |
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| dropping of sediments that occurs when an agent of erosion,such as gravity, a glacier, wind, or water, loses its energy and can no longer carry its load |
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| mound formed when windblown sediments pile up behind an obstacle; common landform in desert areas |
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| any type of erosion tat occurs as gravitymove materials downslope |
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| a type of mass movement that occurs when a mass of materials moves down a curved slope |
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