Weathering

What type of weathering does this illustration describe?

• Physical Weathering

• Chemical Weathering

What type of weathering does this illustration describe?

• Physical Weathering

• Chemical Weathering

What type of weathering does this illustration describe?

• Physical Weathering

• Chemical Weathering

What type of weathering does this illustration describe?

• Physical Weathering

• Chemical Weathering

Which answer below is an example of physical weathering?

• Wind blasting sand at rock and carving out arches.

• Caves being formed by acid rain.

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Which answer below is an example of chemical weathering?

• Glaciers scraping rocks across the earth's surface.

• Decaying plant that gives off acid that weakens a rock causing it to break.

True or False Physical weathering makes rocks smaller, but does not change the rocks in any other way.

• True

• False

The following are examples of physical weathering:

Mark ALL that apply.

• Tree roots grow and break rocks.

• Sand abrasion on cliffs.

• A rock weathered by freezing and thawing of water.

• Weathering of sandstone by salt water.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What type of weathering does this illustration describe?

• Physical Weathering

• Chemical Weathering

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Chemical Weathering never changes the minerals in rocks.

• True

• False