Weathering and Erosion Vocabulary

The process where rocks are worn away or broken down into smaller pieces by wind, water, ice, or chemicals.

• Wind Erosion

• Weathering

• Erosion

• Water Erosion

When wind particles moves sand particles to form sand dunes in the desert.

• Wind Erosion

• Water Erosion

• Abrasion

• Saturation

When rocks are worn down by acid rain.

• Wind Erosion

• Water Erosion

• Chemical Weathering

• Erosion

When the soil is holding all the water it can.

• Hydrosphere

• Water Erosion

• Saturation

• Abrasion

The solid portion of the Earth is referred to as this.

• Saturation

• Precipitation

• Hydrosphere

• Geosphere

This type of precipitation is caused by air pollution. It contributes to chemical weathering.

• Air

• Deposition

• Acid Rain

• Saturation

Broken rocks and sediments are picked up and moved to another place by water, wind, or ice.

• Abrasion

• Weathering

• Water Erosion

• Erosion

This causes mudslides

• Water Erosion

• Chemical Weathering

• Abrasion

• Erosion

When rocks rub together and then break down into smaller pieces.

• Chemical Weathering

• Saturation

• Precipitation

• Abrasion

This includes all the water in the Earth's surface.

• Hydrosphere

• Hydrodome

• Hydrospace

• Precipitation