Question

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Earth contains a great variety of landforms created by wind and running water. Think about how moving water can change land, and then think about how wind changes land. In what ways are these two process similar and different?

Using complete sentences, explain at least one similarity and one difference between the ways water and wind change rocks and soil over time.

Answer 1

 your talking about Erosion

Erosion is the geological process in which earthen materials are worn away and transported by natural forces such as wind or water. A similar process, weathering, breaks down or dissolves rock, but does not involve movement.

 

Erosion is the opposite of deposition, the geological process in which earthen materials are deposited, or built up, on a landform.

 

Most erosion is performed by liquid water, wind, or ice (usually in the form of a glacier). If the wind is dusty, or water or glacial ice is muddy, erosion is taking place. The brown color indicates that bits of rock and soil are suspended in the fluid (air or water) and being transported from one place to another. This transported material is called sediment.

 

Physical Erosion

 

Physical erosion describes the process of rocks changing their physical properties without changing their basic chemical composition. Physical erosion often causes rocks to get smaller or smoother. Rocks eroded through physical erosion often form clastic sediments. Clastic sediments are composed of fragments of older rocks that have been transported from their place of origin.

 

Landslides and other forms of mass wasting are associated with physical weathering. These processes cause rocks to dislodge from hillsides and crumble as they tumble down a slope.