Weathering / Erosion

Physical Chemical Biological

Freeze Thaw Onion Skin Aeolian Hydraulic Attrition Abrasion Corrasion Solution *Where plants
Weathering Weathering Weathering Action *Where rocks *Where bits of *Where fragments *Where acid in the and animals break
*Where water *Where rock *Where sand *Where trapped and pebbles rock and sand of rock are hurled water dissolves down material,
trapped in rock heats and cools carried in the air is smash into grind down at the cliff by some types of rock, through roots
crevices expands as during the day wind wears compressed, each other cliff/riverbank waves causing the typically chalk and breaking up rock,
it freezes, causing and night, away causing rock to and break up. surfaces like cliff face to limestone. or burrowing.
rock to crack. weakening it. exposed rock. crack, weaken, sandpaper. shatter.
and fall away.

Weathering Weathering Weathering Weathering Weathering Weathering Weathering Weathering Weathering

Erosion Erosion Erosion Erosion Erosion Erosion Erosion Erosion Erosion

These types of weathering are This type of This type of

caused by changes in weathering is weathering is
These types of erosion are caused by water, and so
temperature, and so occur caused by the caused by
occur at rivers and coasts.
anywhere. wind and so plants and
occur anywhere. animals so
occur anywhere.