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Dale Copeland

Sedimentary Rock Worksheet

Use the following table to describe and distinguish between the effects of weathering and erosion. Each response must be at least 200 words.

|Effects of Weathering |Effects of Erosion |What are the Differences? |

|Weathering occurs on the surface of rocks |Erosion occurs by a few different means. |There are a few differences between the |

|and land that cause it to break down or |One of which is heavy wind, it can carry |two, they are different in that weathering |

|shrink in size. There is chemical and |weathered material away from the item in |can occur without erosion, but erosion |

|mechanical breakdown, mechanical is the |which it came from. Gravity can also cause |cannot occur without weathering. Also, |

|decomposition of the item into smaller |erosion. Rain, and flood waters is one of |weathering is the breakdown of rock, while |

|pieces and yet the chemical make up of the |the largest causes of erosion. Animals and |erosion is essentially the building of |

|item stays the same. This can happen due to|humans can also move the material either on|rock. New layers of sedimentary rock would |

|frost, the temperature heating and cooling |purpose or by complete accident. |not form without the process of erosion |

|the item causing it to crack, as well as |Sedimentary rock, actually form due to the |making the material for the rock available |

|roots growing around it causing it to |process of erosion. Rocks near the earths |for deposition. Weathering causes effects |

|crack, other things can cause this such as |surface weather and erode, and the material|at the site of the rock, and erosion causes|

|land slides and such where other rocks may |from that is always being moved some where |effects at a site other than the rock that |

|grind across the item. The...