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8-1 Rocks and Weathering 1)How do rocks and weathering affect Earth’s surface? 2)What are the causes of mechanical weathering ands chemical weathering? 3)What determines how fast weathering occurs?
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8-1 Rocks and Weathering 1)How do rocks and weathering affect Earth’s surface? 2)What are the causes of mechanical weathering ands chemical weathering?

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Page 1: 8-1 Rocks and Weathering 1)How do rocks and weathering affect Earth’s surface? 2)What are the causes of mechanical weathering ands chemical weathering?

8-1 Rocks and Weathering

1) How do rocks and weathering affect Earth’s surface?

2) What are the causes of mechanical weathering ands chemical weathering?

3) What determines how fast weathering occurs?

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How do arches form?

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Define: “Weathering”

• “Weathering” is the process that breaks down rock on Earth’s Surface.

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Erosion• “Erosion” is

the removal of rock particles by wind, water, or gravity.

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Uniformitarianism “Uniformitarianism”

is the principle that the processes that operate today are the same processes that operated in the past.

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Mechanical Weathering

• The type of weathering that breaks rocks into smaller pieces.

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Chemical Weathering

• “Chemical Weathering” is the type of weathering that breaks down rock through chemical changes.

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Types of Mechanical Weathering

• Release of Pressure

• Freezing and Thawing

• Animal Actions• Plant Growth• Abrasion

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Release of Pressure

• Erosion removes material from the surface of a mass of rock, this reduces pressure on the rock and causes it to crack.

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Freezing and Thawing

When water freezes in cracks in a rock it expands and makes the crack bigger, this is called “Ice Wedging”

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Animal Actions

• Animals that burrow break up rock and soil.

• Their burrowing also exposes more rock to weathering.

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Plant Growth

• The roots of trees and other plants enter cracks in rock. As the plant grows its roots force the crack to widen.

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Abrasion• Sand or rock

particles carried by wind or water wear away at rock.

• This is similar to sandpaper being used on wood.

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Chemical Weathering

• The types of chemical weathering include the action of water, oxygen, carbon dioxide, living organisms and acid rain.

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Living Organisms

• Plant roots can produce weak acids that wear away rock.

• Lichens for example.

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Acid Rain

• Compounds from fossil fuels can mix with water in the atmosphere and come down as acid rain.

• This causes rapid chemical weathering.

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Action of Water

• Most important cause of chemical weathering

• Water dissolves rock making a solution.

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Oxygen

• Oxygen combined with water will cause iron to undergo Oxidation otherwise known as rust.

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Carbon Dioxide• Carbon dioxide can

dissolve into rainwater and create a weak acid called Carbonic acid.

• This weak acid easily weathers marble and limestone.

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Rate of Weathering

• Type of Rock and the climate affect the rate of weathering.

• Some rocks are more permeable and weather faster.

• Chemical weathering occurs more quickly in warm climates.