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| occurs when the chemical dissolves in the rock and change them into a different minerals |
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| weather pattern that occurs in an area for years |
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| dark colored decayed organic thing that supplies food to plants and is found in topsoil |
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| when water freezes in a cracks of rocks which is causing the rock to expand |
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| the removal of mineralsthat been dissolved in water |
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| a physical process that breaks rock apart without changing the chemical make up |
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| when metallic objects is exposed to oxygenand water time over time. |
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| a combines of weathered rock, decayed organic material, mineral fragments, water, and air that can thousands of years to develop. |
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| mechanical or chemical process that breaks rocks into smaller pieces. |
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| surface materials are worn away and transported from one place to another by gravity, wind, water, and glaciers. |
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| wind blows over loose seediments removes small paricles, and leaver coarser sediments. |
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| dropping sediments by gravity, glacier, wind, water and it loses its energy and no longer carry its load. |
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| a mound formed by blown sediments that piles up behind a obstacle. |
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| any type of ersion that occurs as gravity moves down a slope. |
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| type of mass movement that occurs when a mass of material moves down a curved slope. |
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