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Rahmatollah P.

Sultan EARTH SCIENCE 11 STEM

Module 8- Quarter 2

Written Task # 1

ACTIVITY 2

1. TIME

2. ROCKS

3. EROSION

4. COLDER

5. CRACKS

6. SAND

7. RIVER

8. CANYON

ACTIVITY 3

1. EROSION

2. EROSION

3. EROSION

4. WEATHERING

5. WEATHERING

6. WEATHERING

7. EROSION

8. WEATHERING

9. EROSION

10. WEATHERING
ACTIVITY 4

Weathering is

Weathering is the breaking down Weathering degrades a rock without


of rocks, soils and minerals as well It is different from changing its location. Erosion, on the
as wood and artificial materials other hand, causes rocks - or particles of
through contact with water,
Erosion because rock - to be carried away from their
atmospheric gases, and biological original locations and deposited
organisms. elsewhere.

It has 2 types with


the following
differences

Chemical weathering
transforms the original
Mechanical weathering material into a
is the disintegration of substance with a
rock into smaller and different composition
smaller fragments. and different physical
characteristics.

Each of these types have the following branches

 Freeze weathering or
Frost Wedging.
 Carbonation
 Exfoliation weathering
 Oxidation
or Unloading.
 Hydration
 Thermal Expansion.
 Hydrolysis
 Abrasion and Impact.
 Acidification
 Salt weathering or
Haloclasty

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