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| occurs when chemical reactions dissolve the minerals in rocks or change them into diffrent 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 supplise nutrients to plants and is found mainly in topsoil |
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| mechanical weathering process that occurs when water freezes in the cracks of expands causeing the rock to break apart |
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| removal of minerals that have been disovled in water |
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| physical process that breaks rocks apart without changing |
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| chemical weathering process that occurs when metallic material is exposed to oxygen and water over time |
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| mixture of weathering rock decayed organic matter mineral fragments water and air that can take thousands of years to develup |
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| mechanical or chemical surface process that breaks rock into smaller and smaller pieces |
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| mechanical or chemical surface process that breaks rock into smaller and smaller pieces |
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| proecess in whitch surface materials are worn away and transported from one place to another by agents such as gravity water wind and glaciers |
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