| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Weathering | Mechanical or chemical surface processes that break rocks into smaller pieces. |
| Mechanical Weathering | Physical processes that breaks rock apart without changing chemicial makeup. |
| Ice Wedging | Mechanicial weathering processes that occurs when water freezes in the cracks of rocks and expands causing the rock to break apart |
| Chemicial Weathering | occurs when chemicial reactions dissolve the minerals in the rocks or change them into different minerals |
| Oxidation | chemical weathering processes that occurs when metallic is exposed to oxygen and water over time. |
| Climate | the pattern of weather that occurs in a particular area over many years |
| Surface Area | the amount of the surface that completly visable or exposed |
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