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Question	Answer
What is weathering?	The process were the rocks are broken down by the environment
How does temperature effect the rocks?	Rapid tmperature shift can cause the rocks to break
How can water effect weathering?	Water can slip into the cracks of the rocks and freeze, the ice created expands and the rock can break
What do salts do?	They make it so that their chemicals create crystals inside the rock, breaking it because of pressure
How can gases weather rocks?	By changing the chemicals in the rocks
How do acids make the rocks weather?	By dissolving them
How can water affect the erosion of rocks?	By the water diluting the chemical structure of the rocks
What is erosion?	Small particles broken of rock that is moved by rivers
Why does the Leaning Tower of Piza lean?	Because the soil is soft and gradually gives way
What is sedimentation?	The process of which eroded rock land on top of eachother and bond to make
What is the texture?	The size of the particles in the soil
What is the structure?	How well the soil particles join up
What is the water holding capacity?	How much water the soil can hold
What is permeability?	How fast the water can enter the soil
What is consistency?	It is like the elasticity of the soil and how much pressure the particles can take before they break

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	Created by Muhammad Aziz over 7 years ago