Weathering and Erosion Word Search
This weathering and erosion word search covers both halves of the process: weathering that breaks rock apart, by frost wedging, abrasion and oxidation, and erosion that carries the pieces off by wind, water, ice and gravity until deposition drops them somewhere new.
The difference is movement. Weathering breaks rock where it stands; erosion moves the pieces. Water swells by about nine percent when it freezes, so ice in a crack pries rock apart a little more each winter. Rain picks up carbon dioxide and becomes a weak acid that dissolves limestone, which is how caves like Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, the longest known cave system in the world, were hollowed out. Oxidation is rust, and it turns iron-rich rock red.
Rivers do the biggest work. The Colorado River cut the Grand Canyon about a mile deep over several million years. A river on flat ground swings into loops called meanders, and when it cuts across the neck of a loop, the loop is left behind as an oxbow lake. At Bryce Canyon in Utah, the temperature crosses freezing on around 200 days a year, and frost wedging has carved the rock into thousands of thin spires called hoodoos.
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- Abrasion
- Biological
- Burrowing
- Canyon
- Carbonation
- Chemical
- Cover Crop
- Creep
- Delta
- Deposition
- Dissolve
- Dune
- Erosion
- Exfoliation
- Frost Wedging
- Glacier
- Gravity
- Gully
- Hoodoo
- Hydrolysis
- Ice
- Lichen
- Meander
- Mechanical
- Mudflow
- Oxbow
- Oxidation
- Rill
- Rockfall
- Roots
- Rust
- Sand
- Sea Stack
- Sediment
- Silt
- Slump
- Talus
- Water
- Weathering
- Wind