Physical and Chemical Weathering review

What is another term for mechanical weathering?

• chemical weathering

• physical weathering

• eroding weathering

• climate

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What is is the breakdown of rock material by physical and chemical processes?

• erosion

• chemical weathering

• physical weathering

• weathering

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There are two kinds of weathering: physical weathering and chemical weathering.

• true

• false

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Agents of physical weathering include (choose all that apply).

• climate change

• temperature/

  pressure changes

• conduction/

  convection

• plant/animal actions

• water/wind/

  gravity

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What is the process by which rock is broken down into smaller pieces by physical changes.?

• chemical weathering

• weathering

• physical weathering

• physical changes

__________ or __________ causes cracks in rocks to widen with repeated cycles of freezing and thawing.

• ice wedging

• ice weathering

• frost weathering

• frost wedging

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____________ is the process by which the outer layers of rock slowly peel away due to pressure changes.​

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Animals cause chemical weathering by digging burrows.

• true

• false

•What is the breaking down and wearing away of rock material by the mechanical action of other rocks.

• physical weathering

• abrasion

• exfoliation

• chemical composition

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•Agents of physical weathering that can cause abrasion are ....(choose all that count).

• water

• oxygen

• wind

• gravity

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