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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 supplies 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 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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| 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 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 processes that break rocks into smaller and smaller pieces. |
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| Process in which 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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| A typeof erosion that occurs when wind blows over loose sediments, removes 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 area's. |
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| Any type of erosion that occurs as gravity moves materials down slope. |
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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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