Shaping Your Environment

The general terms for the movement of sediment by wind, water, glaciers

• weathering

• erosion

• deposition

The breakdown of rock into smaller pieces of the same rock without any change in its composition

• mechanical weathering

• chemical weathering

• erosion

• deposition

The process of wearing down by friction - like sand blasting.

• exfoliation

• abrasion

• erosion

• deposition

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

• chemical weathering

• mechanical weathering

• erosion

• deposition

The process in which sediment particles are picked up and moved from one place to another.

• mechanical weathering

• chemical weathering

• erosion

• deposition

The part of the erosion process in which sediment travels to a new location and is laid down or dropped off.

• chemical weathering

• mechanical weathering

• erosion

• deposition

Roots grow into cracks of a rock and pry them apart.

• mechanical weathering

• chemical weathering

• erosion

• deposition

Oxidation produces rust on some rocks containing iron

• chemical weathering

• mechanical weathering

• erosion

• deposition

Rock is broken by the freezing and thawing of ice.

• chemical weathering

• mechanical weathering

• erosion

• deposition

Rock particles wear away rock

• mechanical weathering

• chemical weathering

• erosion

• deposition