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What is an agent of mechanical weathering?
a) carbon dioxide
b) acid rain
c) oxygen
d) freezing and thawing

Which process involves the removal of rock particles by wind, water, ice, or gravity?
a) oxidation
b) chemical weathering
c) erosion
d) mechanical weathering

Which is an agent of chemical weathering that produces weak acids that dissolve rock?
a) burrowing animals
b) plant roots
c) ice
d) pressure

In which type of climate does chemical weathering occur faster?
a) hot and wet
b) hot and dry
c) cold and wet
d) cold and dry

Scientists infer that ancient geologic features formed through the same processes they observed today based on the principle of ...
a) scientific method
b) uniformitarianism
c) plate tectonic
d) weathering

The release of pressure from a rock is an example of an agent of ...
a) mechanical weathering
b) chemical weathering
c)
d)

When abrasion and other natural agents physically wear away rock .
a) chemical weathering
b) mechanical weathering
c)
d)

The process by which ice widens and deepens cracks in rock.
a) frost wedging
b) plant growth
c) animal actions
d) adrasion

Rocks that are full of connected air spaces and weather easily.
a) hot
b) cold
c) permeable
d) oxidation

Produces more chemicals as it breaks down rock.
a) chemical weathering
b) mechanical weathering
c)
d)

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