Chemical and Mechanical Weathering

The wedging of tree roots along sidewalks, breaking apart rocks and cement.

• Mechanical Weathering

• Chemical Weathering

• Both Mechanical and Chemical Weathering

Animals burrowing and digging rock

• Mechanical Weathering

• Chemical Weathering

• Both Mechanical and Chemical Weathering

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Repeated freezing and thawing of water that cracks rock

• Mechanical Weathering

• Chemical Weathering

• Both Mechanical and Chemical Weathering

What type of weathering is this? (rocks are colliding and becoming smaller)

• Mechanical (physical)

• Chemical

What type of weathering is this? (rock having oxidation reaction with air).

• Mechanical (physical)

• Chemical

What type of weathering is this?

• Mechanical (physical)

• Chemical

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What type of weathering is this?

• Mechanical (physical)

• Chemical

What type of weathering is this?

• Mechanical (physical)

• Chemical

What type of weathering is this?

• Mechanical (physical)

• Chemical

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What type of weathering is this?

• Mechanical (physical)

• Chemical

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2