Weathering

Question	Answer
What Are Bedding Planes?	A line of rock separating two different layers, it depicts the layer of sediment that was originally deposited horizontally millions of years ago. Image: Bedding+Planes (binary/octet-stream)
What Are Faults?	A large crack in a rock caused by the earths movement.
When Can You Tell Something Is Saturated?	When all pore space in soil or rock are full of water making the soil/rock very heavy or unstable.
What Is A Percolate?	It is when water moves from the soil to the groundwater. Image: Ufu Wet Weather 15cd 1280x720 (binary/octet-stream)
What Is The Water Doing When Infiltrating?	It is moving from the surface to the soil.
What Is Weathering	Weathering is the breaking down of rocks in situ.
What Is Chemical Weathering?	Where the internal structure of the rock or mineral is changed or destroyed by a chemical reaction.
What Is Carbonation?	When acid rain reacts with lime stone to dissolve it.
What Is Oxidation?	When Oxygen And Water React.
What Is Hydrolysis?	When acid rain causes rocks to rot.
What Is Mechanical Weathering?	Where something physically break down the rock into smaller pieces, without changing its properties.
What Is Freeze-Thaw	1. Water collects in a rocks cracks. 2. Water freezes and then expands forcing the cracks in the rock to expand. 3. Ice Thaws contract allowing more water in the cracks and also allows the water to go in deeper. 4. Process repeats.

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	Created by Joseph Stafford over 3 years ago