Question

List 3 importance of weathering

Answer 1

Weathering is important because it leads to the formation of soil.

It reduces unconsolidated material from which it is formed.

It enables farming of the crops.

Answer 2

Answer:

Weathering is important because it:

• Produces unconsolidated material (parent material) from which soil is formed.

• Provides plant nutrients.
• Results in the formation of secondary minerals, the most important group being the clay minerals.
• Rocks are the starting point for the weathering processes.
• big rocks are weathered to smaller rock and smaller rocks are weathered to the minerals that make up the rocks.
• secondary minerals are formed from primary minerals .

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