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Weathering and erosion break igneous and other types of rock into smaller pieces called what?
Weathering and erosion break igneous and other types of rock into smaller pieces called sediments.
How would you describe the shape of a rock that has just broken off a larger block of rock?
The shape of a rock that has just broken off a larger block of rock would likely be irregular with rough and jagged edges where it separated from the main block. It may also exhibit a fractured surface where the break occurred.
When a hammer break s a large rock into smaller pieces the broken rock is on example of what kind of change?
phyiscal change
Does you rock break into small uneven pleces or regularly shaped pleces into min sheets?
Rocks can break into small uneven pieces through processes like weathering and erosion or into regularly shaped pieces through processes like cleavage or faulting. The shape of the pieces will depend on the composition of the rock, the forces acting on it, and the geological processes involved.
The difference between cleavage and fracture?
Cleavage is when you can break the rock into square like pieces and Fracture is when you break a rock into uneven different shaped pieces.
How do rocks break into smaller pieces?
You smash a rock with a bigger rock
Explain the difference between cleavage and fracture.?
Cleavage is when you can break the rock into square like pieces and Fracture is when you break a rock into uneven different shaped pieces.
Weathering and erosion break igneous and other types of rock into smaller pieces called what?
Weathering and erosion break igneous and other types of rock into smaller pieces called sediments.
What does rock particles mean?
All of these changes break rocks into smaller pieces called rock particles
What can you call sand mud and small pieces of rock?
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How does solid rock break into smaller pieces?
Solid rocks break into smaller pieces because weathering could take bits and pieces of the rock. Then erosion carries the rock to some were else. Finally deposition will drop the rock in that place were the erosion brought it.
What are tiny pieces of broken rock?
it is call lemstorne
When rocks are eroded they break down into smaller pieces of rock and minerals called?
Sediment.
When granite rock is exposed to water wind or ice it can break down into smaller pieces and become what rock?
Common Granite
How would you describe the shape of a rock that has just broken off a larger block of rock?
The shape of a rock that has just broken off a larger block of rock would likely be irregular with rough and jagged edges where it separated from the main block. It may also exhibit a fractured surface where the break occurred.
The process called involves physical forces that break rock into pieces.?
That would be mechanical weathering
Weathering and erosion break igneous and other types of rock into smaller pieces called?
Sediments
