Chemical, Physical, and Biological Weathering

What is the movement of rocks and soil from one place to another?

• weathering 
• erosion 
• deterioration
• deposition

What is the breaking up of rocks into smaller pieces without changing the chemistry of it?

• physical weathering
• chemical weathering

What is the process in which rock is broken down by changes in its chemical makeup?

• physical weathering
• chemical weathering

When fossil fuels are burned, these chemicals combine with water in the atmosphere to produce..

• deposition

• cleaner air

• Acid rain

• physical weathering

Agents of physical weathering include _________, plant, and animal actions.

• temperature changes
• oxidation 
• fossil fuels
• deterioration

What agent of chemical weathering, causes rocks to break down and change composition?

• burrowing animals 
• roots of plants
• acid rain
• wind abrasion 

The breakdown of rock material by physical and chemical processes is called...

• weathering 
• erosion
• oxidation
• deposition 

What can caused a rock to break without any change in the minerals that form the rock?

• oxidation
• acid rain
• freezing water
• fossil fuels

What causes minerals in rocks to be changed and leads to the deterioration of the rock?

• chemical weathering
• physical weathering

Rain, ice, and snow has shaped our _____ by physically and chemically weathering rock and soil.

• weather
• environment
• climate