Rocks and Weathering

Which is an agent of Mechanical weathering?

• carbon dioxide
• acid rain
• oxygen
• freezing and thawing

Which process involves the removal of rock particles by wind, water, ice or gravity?

• oxidation
• chemical weathering
• erosion
• mechanical weathering

Which is an agent of chemical weathering that produces weak acids that dissolve rock?

• burrowing animals
• plant roots
• ice
• pressure

Scientists infer that ancient geologic features formed through the same processes they observe today based on the principle of ______________.

• uniformitarianism
• pressure
• rock
• permeable

The release of __________ / exfoliation from a rock is one example of an agent of mechanical weathering?

• permeable
• rock
• oxidation
• pressure

During ____________, iron combines with oxygen in the presence of water to form rust. 

• rock
• pressure
• oxidation
• mechanical

_____________ weathering occurs when abrasion and other natural agents physically wear away rock.

• Chemical
• Weathering
• Mechanical
• Emotional

What are the two types of weathering?

• Mechanical and Physical
• Mechanical and Chemical
• Chemical and Abrasion
• There's more than two types

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Wind abrasion (wind blowing sand against something) is an example of _______ weathering.

• Chemical
• Mechanical

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What type of plate boundary & crust type usually creates tall mountains?

• Convergent, continental-oceanic
• Divergent, continental-continental
• Convergent, continental-continental
• Transform