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This form of weathering is also known as “rusting”
carbonation
oxidation
pressure release
frost action
This is a sudden movement of weathered material downslope.
soil flow
landslide
soil creep
erosion
How is mechanical weathering different from chemical weathering?
Chemical weathering happens over a much shorter time frame than mechanical weathering.
Chemical weathering occurs in the tropics; mechanical weathering occurs in temperate climates.
Chemical weathering occurs in mountains; mechanical weathering occurs on flat surfaces.
Chemical weathering changes the chemical composition of materials; mechanical weathering does not.
How long does the weathering process take?
A few days
No more than a month
Exactly one year
Years and years
Deltas forming at the mouths of rivers are examples of what?
Weathering
Erosion
Deposition
Compaction
A pond filling up with sediment and becoming a marsh is an example of what?
Weathering
Erosion
Deposition
Cementation
How are barrier islands created?
When winds and waves move sand and other sediments
by their parents
because the ocean had a hurricane and moved a bunch of rocks and then they formed
because i wanted them too.