Unit 6 Section 1 Vocabulary

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The process by which water, ice, wind or gravity moves weathered rock

the process that splits rocks when water seeps into cracks, then freezes and expands

the process that breaks down rock through chemical changes

The grinding away of rock by rock particles carried by water, ice, wind or gravity

a material that is full of tiny, connected air spaces that allow water to seep through it

A process that breaks down rock and other substances at Earth's surface

the type of weathering in which rock is physically broken into smaller pieces

A principle that states that the same processes that operate today operated in the past