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True or false water contracts when it freezes causing frost wedging?
False, water expands when it freezes.
What happens if water freezes in a crack of a rock?
The crack would expand because the water in the rock, as it freezes, expands.
What happens to the volume of water when it freezes?
When water freezes, it actually expands and increases in volume. This is because the water molecules align in a crystalline structure as they freeze, causing them to occupy more space. This increase in volume is why ice is less dense than water and floats on its surface.
How does freezing water cause rocks to weathering?
When water freezes, it expands, exerting pressure on surrounding rocks. This repeated cycle of freezing and thawing weakens the rocks, causing them to break down into smaller pieces through a process called frost wedging. Over time, this process contributes to the mechanical weathering of rocks.
How does freezing water weather rocks?
yes it does when water freezes it expands the rocks cracks which he water went inside
Does water expand?
When it freezes.
What expands as it freezes?
Water
Which liquid expands when it freezes?
Water
What is it called when water enters cracks and freezes and expands breaking rocks apart?
This process is called frost wedging or freeze-thaw weathering. Water enters cracks in rocks, freezes and expands, causing the rock to break apart over time.
Why do water pipes burst when water running through freezes?
Because when the water freezes it expands.
Name the process when water freezes in a rock and breaks the rock apart?
The process is called mechanical weathering or freeze-thaw weathering. Water seeps into cracks in the rock, freezes, expands, and ultimately breaks the rock apart as the ice expands.
What expands when it freezes which makes ice?
Water.
When water freezes it expands?
Yes, it will expand.
What happens to volume of water when it freezes?
it remain the same as it has definite volume.
Does 20 percent of water expand as it freezes?
It is not that 20 per cent of the water expands - all of the water expands.
Murcury expands when it's hot but what expands when it's cold?
Water expands when it freezes and becomes ice.
Why when the water freezes the density goes down?
Its density goes down because when water freezes it expands.
