Weathering of Rocks

Booklets
Directions: Take 4 half sheets of paper & fold them in half. Staple the crease. Write the title

Weathering of Rocks on the front cover. Open up the first page. Write the title Frost Wedging. Answer
the questions below in complete sentences (you do not have to rewrite the question) on the page on the left.
Then draw a picture on the page on the right to represent frost wedging. Repeat these steps until you have
covered each topic below. Tell whether each one is mechanical or chemical weathering. Write your name on the
back cover & turn it in when you finish.
A. Frost Wedging
1. What is the agent that causes frost wedging?
2. Explain the process of frost wedging
B.

Unloading and Exfoliating

1. What is the force that causes exfoliation?
2. What shape is produced by exfoliation?
3. Name one area of the world affected by exfoliation.

C. Biological Activity
1. How do plants and animals cause the breakdown of rocks?

D. Water
1. How does water affect the weathering of
rocks?
2. What is hydrolysis?
3. What happens to rock when acid reacts with it?
E. Oxygen/Carbon Dioxide
1. What is oxidation?
2. How does Carbonic Acid form?

F. Differential Weathering
1. Which type of rocks takes longer to be weathered?
2. Which type of rocks is easier to be weathered?
3. How does the climate affect the rate of weathering?
4. How do cracks affect the rate of weathering?
G. Acid Precipitation
1. How does Acid Rain Form?
2. What is the pH scale? (Draw a picture)
3. Name one way that acid rain negatively impacts the Earth

Erosion & Deposition Foldable

Use the Erosion & Deposition power point notes to create a foldable that organizes the information.
**We have done this type of foldable before the Windows into Earth foldable w/ the spheres & parts of
earth vocabulary.
Steps:
1. Turn your construction paper horizontally (landscape).
2. Fold each side towards the middle (3 inch flaps)
3. Make marks on your flaps at the following points:
a. 2 inches
b. 4 inches
c. 6 inches
4. Cut the flaps all the way to the crease at those 3 marks (do this on both sides).
5. On the flaps write the following terms:

The Work of Streams

Competence & Capacity

Dissolved Load

Deposition

Suspended Load

Delta

Bed Load

Natural Levees

6. On the inside of the flap, write the notes that are on each slide of the notes. You can paraphrase, but
make sure you have everything written down.
7. On the back of your foldable, write your name. Turn this in when you have finished.