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| occurs when chemical reactions dissolve the minerals in rock or change them into different minerals. |
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| weather patern that occurs in a particular area over many years. |
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| dark-color, decayed organic matter that supplies nutrients to plants and is found mainly in top soil. |
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| mechanical weathering pross that occurs when water freezes in the crack of rockd and expands causing the rock to break apart. |
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| removal of minerals that have been dessolved in water. |
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| physical prosses that breaks rocks apart without changing thier chenical makeup. |
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| chemical weathering prosses that occurs when metallic mater |
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| Mixture of weathered rock, decayed organic matter, mineral fragments,water and air that can take thousands of years to develop |
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| Mechanical or chemical surfes prosses that break rock into smaller and smaller peices. |
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| process in which surfes materials are worn away and transported from one place to another by agents such as gravity, water, wind, and glaceirs. |
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| a type of erosin that occurs when wind blows over loose sediments, removes small particals, and leaves coaser sediments behind. |
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| Dropping of sediment that gravity occurs when an agent of erosion such as gravity, glaceirs, wind, or water loses its energy and can no longer carry its load. |
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| Mound formed when windblown sediments pile up behind an obstacle |
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| Any type of erosion that occurs as gravity moves matereals down slope. |
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| A type of mass movment that occurs when a mass of material moves down a curved slop |
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