Weathering and Rocks

Temperature, ice and water, plants, crystallization of salts, wind.

• Sediments

• Erosion

• Agents or physical weathering

• Agents of chemical weathering

Rocks formed when other rocks are put under extreme heat and pressure

• Sedimentary rock

• Metamorphic rocks

• Sediments

• Igneous rocks

the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling Ex: magma into an igneous rock

• Cementation

• Melting

• Solidification

• Deposition

how well soil can retain water (sand is low, clay is high)

• Permeability

• Compaction

• Soil structure

• Water holding capacity

The breakdown of rocks through physical action

• chemical weathering

• physical weathering

• compaction

• deposition

Process in which sediment is laid down in new locations.

• Deposition

• Cementation

• Weathering

• Erosion

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

• Weathering

• Deposition

• Erosion

• Compaction

The process by which sediments are pressed together under their own weight.

• Deposition

• Erosion

• Compaction

• Sedimentation

the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid

• Weathering

• Deposition

• Erosion

• Melting

the soil quality that is based on the sizes of soil particles

• soil consistency

• soil permeability

• sediments

• soil texture