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| occus when chemical reactions dissolves the minerals in rocks or change them into different minerals |
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| weather pattern that occurs in a particular area over many years |
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| dark colored, decayed organt matter that supplies nutrients to plants and is found mainly in top soil |
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| mechanicalweathering proccess that occurs when water freezes in the cracks of rocks and expands, causing the rock to break apart |
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| removal of minerals that have been dissolved in water |
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| physical process that breaks rocks apatt without changing their chemical makeupcan be caused by ice wedging, animals,and plant roots |
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| chemical weathering process that occurs when metallic material is exposed to oxygen and water over time |
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| mixture of weathered rock, decayed organic matter,mineral fragments,water and air that can take thousands of years to develope |
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| mechanical or chemical surface processes that break rocks into smaller and smaller pieces |
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| process in which surface materials are worn away and transported from one place to another by agent such as gravity,water,wind,and glaciers |
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| a type of erosion that occurs when wind blows over loose sediments,removes small particals,and leaves coarser sediments behind |
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| dropping of sediments that occurs when an agent of erosion,such as gravity,a glacier,wind,or water,loses its energy and can no longer carry its load |
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| mound forms when windblown sediments pile up behind an obstacle,common landform in dessert areas |
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| any type of erosion that occurs as gravity moves materials down slope |
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| a type of mass movement that occurs when a mass of material movesdown a curved slope |
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