Effects on Earth Systems: Vocabulary

The breaking down of rocks and other materials on the Earth's surface.

• Ice wedging
• Weathering
• Mechanical Weathering
• Ground water

Processes by which rock, sand, and soil are broken down and carried away (i.e. weathering, glaciation)

• Ice wedging
• Aquifer
• Recharge zone
• Erosion

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Process in which sediment is laid down in new locations.

• Deposition
• Aquifer
• Carbonation
• Ground water

A relatively large area that is characterized by distinctive plant and animal communities, climate, and ecological features.

• Catastrophic events
• Watershed
• Mechanical Weathering
• Ecoregion

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

A chemical change in which a substance combines with oxygen, as when iron oxidizes, forming rust

• Chemical weathering
• Weathering
• Reshaping
• Oxidation

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS1-5

To give a particular shape or form

• Percolation
• Erosion
• Reshaping
• PH

mechanical weathering process that occurs when water freezes in the cracks of rocks and expands, causing the rock to break apart

• Carbonation
• Mechanical Weathering
• Ice wedging
• PH

An increase in the size of a substance when the temperature is increased

• PH
• Recharge zone
• Thermal Expansion
• Catastrophic events

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

The process that breaks down rock through chemical changes.

• Recharge zone
• Aquifer
• Mechanical Weathering
• Chemical weathering

The type of weathering in which rock is physically broken into smaller pieces

• Percolation
• Ecoregion
• Mechanical Weathering
• Chemical weathering