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| occurs when when chemical reactions dissolve the minerals in rocks or change them in to different minerals |
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| weather pattern that occurs in a certan part of a area over many years |
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| dark colored decayed organic matter that supplies nutrients to plants and is found in mainly top soils |
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| mechanical weathering process that occurs when water freezes in the cracks of rock and expand causig the rock to break apart |
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| removal of minerals that have been dissiled in water |
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| physical proccess that breaks rocks apart without changing there chemical make up |
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| chemical weathering processes that occurs when metallic materials is exposed to oxygen and water over time |
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| a mix of weatheed rock decyed organic matter, mineral fragments, water and air that can take thousand s of years to devolop |
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| mechanical or chemical surface proccesses that break rocks into smaller and smaller pieces |
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| processin whichin which surface matierals are worn away and trans ported from one place to enother by agents such as gravity wat4er wind and glaciers |
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| a type of erosion that occurs when wind blows over loose sedimats removes small particales and leaves coarser |
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| dropping of sedimats that that occurs whan aagent of erosion a gravity and/or a glacier wind or water loses its enrgey and can no longer work |
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| mound formed when windblown sedimats piled up behind an obsticale common landform in dessert areas |
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| any type of erosion that occurs as gravity moves gravity move s matirerals down slope |
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| a type of mass movementthat occurs when a mass of materail that moves down a curved slope |
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