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1. What are rocks made of? Minerals and other smaller rocks
2. What is a physical change in an object? A change in appearance based on sized but is still the
object.
3. What is a chemical change in an object? When an objects chemical compound is changed and
CANNOT be changed back to its original form.

Earth’s Processes

- Weathering, erosion, and deposition are processes that act together to wear down and build up the
Earth’s surface.
- These processes have occurred for billions of years.
- The Earth’s surface is always changing
- The heat from the core is the energy that drives the movement of land and materials on Earth’s
crust

Weathering

- Physical Weathering – The physical breaking up of rock but does not change the composition (wind,
water, ice, etc.)
- Chemical Weathering – Changing the composition of rock, Examples are: Water, it can dissolves
rocks; Oxygen, it can cause oxidation; Carbon Dioxide, it mixes with water to form carbonic acid
which breaks down rocks; Living Organisms, lichens and tree roots create a weak acid that can
break down rocks; Acid Rain, elements like sulfur which combine with water to make acid rain
which can break down rocks
- Erosion – When Earth’s surface is worn away
- Deposition – Where you have weathering the materials that are broken away are stored someplace
else

Weathering Erosion Deposition

Chemical
Definition – Breaking down
rocks to where they can’t be
put back together
Example – Acid Rain
Definition – The breaking Definition – Depositing the
down of rock by wind, water, parts of a rock after
etc. weathering in another place
Example – The Grand Canyon Example – Sand Dune

Physical Landform – The Sphinx’s nose Landform - Delta

Definition – Breaking down
rocks but not to the point
where they have another
chemical composition
Example – Breaking a rock
Landform – Sand dune
The wearing down or Wind, water, etc.
breaking down of rock breaks down rock

Weathering

The Sphinx

When something happens

Changing an objects such as acid rain the
chemical composition chemical composition of an
through weathering object can be changed
Chemical
Weathering

Carbon Dioxide
 When something happens
When an object is changed such as erosion the effect
but is still a smaller version is smaller versions of the
of the object rock
Mechanical
Weathering

Erosion
The breaking down of When something
a rock using water, runs over a surface it
wind, etc. starts to wear down
Erosion

Water going over a

rock

When pieces of a rock that Water wears down a rocks

have broken off are and the pieces are brought
deposited elsewhere down stream to a delta

Deposition

Sand Dune