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| occers when chemical reactions dissolve 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 organic matter that supplies nutrients to plants and is found mainly in topsoil. |
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| mechanical weathering process that occurs when water freezes in the cracks of rocks and expands, causeing the rock to break apart |
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| removal of minerals that have been dissolved in water. |
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| physilcal process that breaks rock apart without changing their chemical makeup, can 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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| prosses in which surface materials are worn away and transported from one place to another by agents, 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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| mouned formed when windblown sediment pile up behind an obstacle, common landform in dessert areas. |
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| any type of erosion that occurs as gravity moves materials downslope. |
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| a type of mass movement that occurs when a mass of material moves down a curved slope. |
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