Chemical Weathering

What is the keyword for Water?

• dissolving

• oxidize, rust

• weak acid

• roots

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What is the keyword for Water?

• Water can dissolve rock

• Fossil fuels pollute air and rain which makes acid rain, rapid weathering effect

• Gas dissolves in rain water to form a weak acid

• Roots can produce a weak acid to dissolve rock

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What type of weathering is it when acid rain breaks down and changes the rock.

• chemical weathering 
• physical or mechanical weathering
• erosion

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Acid rain is most likely to cause...

• deposition
• glaciers to move
• chemical weathering
• mechanical weathering

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Rust that forms on rocks or metal because of extended exposure to oxygen is what example of chemical weathering?

• carbon dioxide (carbonic acid)
• acid rain
• oxidation
• lichens

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Which type of climate will have faster chemical weathering?

• Hot and Wet
• Cold and Dry
• Hot and Cold
• Cold and Wet

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the process by which layers or sheets of rock gradually break off

• exfoliation
• abrasion
• erosion
• deposition

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the breakdown or decomposition of rock that takes place when minerals change through chemical processes

• chemical weathering
• mechanical weathering
• erosion
• deposition

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Roots grow into cracks of a rock and pry them apart

• mechanical weathering
• chemical weathering
• erosion
• deposition

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oxidation produces rust on some rocks containing iron

• chemical weathering
• mechanical weathering
• erosion
• deposition

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