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What Is Weathering?

What Is Weathering?. Weathering is the process that breaks down rocks into smaller and smaller pieces Weathering wears down mountains and breaks down statues. What Is Weathering?. There are two types of weathering: mechanical and chemical weathering. What Is Mechanical Weathering?.

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What Is Weathering?

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  1. What Is Weathering? • Weathering is the process that breaks down rocks into smaller and smaller pieces • Weathering wears down mountains and breaks down statues

  2. What Is Weathering? • There are two types of weathering: mechanical and chemical weathering

  3. What Is Mechanical Weathering? • It breaks apart rocks without changing them chemically • There are 5 types

  4. What Is Mechanical Weathering? • Rocks formed under pressure expand and contract when pressure is released

  5. Ice Wedging occurs when water seeps into cracks in rock & freezes…the rock expands and finally breaks This type of weathering causes potholes in the road What Is Mechanical Weathering?

  6. What Is Mechanical Weathering? Abrasion is the collision of rocks with one another & agents such asgravity, water & wind

  7. Organic Activity known as root pry As roots of plants can work their way into cracks of rock and break them apart What Is Mechanical Weathering?

  8. What is Mechanical Weathering? • Temperature changes from hot to cold may aid in weathering • Rocks expand in hot weather and contract in cold

  9. What Is Chemical Weathering? • It breaks apart the rock when substances chemically react with the minerals in the rock, changing it into a different substance. • There are 4 types of chemical weathering

  10. What Is Chemical Weathering? • Hydrolysis • minerals change into new compounds when exposed to water

  11. What Is Chemical Weathering? • Oxidation • Oxygen combines with minerals

  12. What Is Chemical Weathering? • Carbonation • change in minerals when they react with carbonic acid…CO2 + water • Dissolves limestone forming caves

  13. What Is Chemical Weathering? • Decaying Plants • Produce acids that break down rocks • Especially mosses and lichens

  14. What Affects the Rate of Weathering? • Rock Composition: igneous and metamorphic rock weather more slowly • Amount of Exposure: the longer a rock is exposed the faster it will weather

  15. What Affects the Rate of Weathering? • Climate: variable weather conditions accelerate weathering processes • Topography: on steep slopes, rocks are weathered more quickly

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