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| occurs when chimical reactions dissolove the minirals in rocks or chang them into different minerals. |
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| weather pattern that occurs in a particular area over many years. |
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| dark-colored decayed organic matter that supplies nutrients to plants and its found manily in topsoil |
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| machanical weathering process that occurs when water freezes in the cracks of rocks and expands causing the rock to break apart. |
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| removal of minerals that have been disoved in water. |
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| physical process that breaks rocks apart without changing thir cimical makeup. |
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| chimical weathering process that occurs when metallic material is expossed to oxygen and water over time. |
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| mixture of weatered rock decayed organic matter mineral fragments water and air that can take thousands of years to develop. |
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| mechanical or chimical surface process that break rocks into smaller and smaller pieces. |
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| process in witch surface materials are worn away transported from one place to another by agents such as gravity water wind and glacier. |
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| a type of erosion that ocours when wind over loose sediments removes smalls particals and leaves coaser |
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| a type of mass movement that occurs when a mass of material moves down a curved slope |
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