WorksheetsMechanical Weathering Vocabulary 2023
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 8mins
The process by which rock is mechanically or physically broken down into smaller pieces.
Weathering
Mechanical Weathering
Erosion
Tree Root Wedging
The wearing down of rocks by friction of water or wind.
Abrasion
weathering
erosion
frost wedging
The process in which roots grow into cracks in rocks and force the cracks open as they continue to grow.
tree root erosion
mechanical weathering
frost wedging
tree root wedging
The breaking apart of rock due to pressure of water freezing in the cracks.
root wedging
frost erosion
frost wedging
root erosion
The process of breaking rocks into smaller pieces.
weathering
erosion
abrasion
deposition
The process of moving weathered rock from one place to another.
weathering
erosion
abrasion
sediment
the new placement of sediment after erosion has taken place.
sediment
abrasion
deposition
erosion
Small pieces of rock that have been broken down by the process of weathering.
abrasion
sediment
deposition
weathering
A natural resource that cannot be replaced easily and will run out someday.
nonrenewable resource
renewable resource
toilet paper
carbon dioxide
A natural resource that can be replaced easily or will never run out.
renewable resource
nonrenewable resource
toilet paper
fossil
The process plants go through to make their own food is called
Photosynthesis
Glucose
Herbivore
Food Chain
Eats other organisms; a living thing that needs to eat to obtain energy.
Producer
Consumer
Food Chain
The gas that is given off by plants and used by humans to breathe.
chlorophyll
oxygen
carbon dioxide
photosynthesis
The gas that is given off by humans and used by plants to go through photosynthesis.
carbon dioxide
oxygen
chlorophyll
photosynthesis
