1. Weathering and Soil Formation
Chapter 10
Weathering and Soil Formation

2. Chap 10, Sec 1 (Weathering) Objectives:
Describe how ice, water, wind, gravity, plants, and animals cause mechanical weathering.
Describe how water, acids, and air cause chemical weathering of rocks.

3. DON’T FORGET TO NUMBER THESE TECH TERMS!!!
Weathering (paste the colored slip here, then paste the white slips that belong with this word, below)
DON’T FORGET TO NUMBER THESE TECH TERMS!!!

4. Erosion (paste the colored slip here, then paste the white slips that belong with this word, below)
Deposition (paste the colored slip here, then paste the white slips that belong with this word, below)

7. abrasion – the grinding away of rock by rock particles carried by water, ice, wind, or gravity.
ice wedging – a type of frost action (weathering from ice) occurs when wedges of ice in rock widen and deepen the existing cracks.