Weathering Choice Board Quiz

Which of the following are types of chemical weathering?

• Oxidation

• Water

• Organisms

• Temperature Change

• Pressure Change

Plant and Animal actions are causes of what type of weathering?

• Chemical

• Physical

[Blank] is the type of materials within a rock and the overall chemical makeup of the rock

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Changes in the [blank] can cause a rock to break apart

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What is oxidation?

• Process by which chemicals combine with oxygen

• The breakdown of rock materials by chemical and physical process

• process by which the outer layers of rock slowly peel away

  due to pressure changes

• the breaking down and wearing away of rock material by the

  mechanical action of other rocks.

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What is weathering?

• Color, Appearance, Size, Texture, etc

• The breakdown of rock material by chemical and physical process

• Rainy, Snowing, Cloudy, Sunny, etc

• Process by which chemicals combine with oxygen

True or False: There are TWO types of weathering?

• True

• False

Rocks get smaller and smaller without a change in the composition of the rock is called?

• Chemical Weathering

• Physical Weathering

True or False: Temperature change is a result of Chemical weathering?

• True

• False

What is chemical weathering?

• Rocks getting smaller

• The breakdown of rocks by chemical reaction

• The breakdown of rock material by chemical and physical process

• Pouring chemicals on a rock

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