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| Occures when chemical reactions dissolves the minerals in rocks |
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| Weather patterns that occur in a particular area over many years |
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| cark- colored, decade organic matter that supplies nutrients to plants and is found mainly in topsoil |
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| mechanical weathering process that occers 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 dissolved in water |
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| process that breaks rocks apart without changing their chemical makeup |
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| chemical weathering process that occers when matallic material is exposed to oxegen and water over time |
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| mixture of weatherd rock, decayed organic matter mineral fragments, water, and air |
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| mechanical or chemical surface processes that break rocks into smaller and smaller pieces |
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| the suface is worn away and transported from one place to another |
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| type of erosion that happens when wind blows sedement from one place to another |
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| dropping of sediments that occer when an agent of erosoin, 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 obsticle, comman landform in the desert |
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| any type of erosion that occers as gravity moves materials downslope |
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| a type of mass movment that occers when a mass of matirial moves down a curved slope |
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