EXOGENIC PROCESS

Reported by: Group 2

Prepared by: Precious Ann P. Ambrocio
EXOGENIC PROCESSES

Exogenic Processes are

processes that take place at
or near the Earth’s surface,
that makes the surface wear
aware.
Types of Exogenic Processes:

Weathering
Mass Wasting
Erosion
Sedimentation
WEATHERING
It is a set of physical, chemical, and
biological processes that alter the physical
and chemical state of rocks and soil at or
near the earth’s surface.
Rock and soil are altered physically by
disintegrating; and chemically by
decomposing.
PHYSICAL WEATHERING
It happens when rock is
physically broken into
smaller pieces.
 Factors that affect Physical
Weathering:
1. Ice Wedging
2. Release of Pressure
3. Abrasion
4. Animals
5. Growth of Plants
Ice Wedging
H20 seeps in rock, expands,
crack rocks into smaller pieces.
Release of Pressure
Surface rock erodes, rock flakes like onion
layers.
Abrasion
Sand and rock carried by wind, water, ice wears
away surface rock when rocks collide.
Most common
in windy areas.
Animals
Burrow and
push apart
rock.
Growth of Plants
Roots grow into cracks and push
rocks apart.
CHEMICAL WEATHERING
It is the process of
breaking down rock
through chemical
changes.
 Factors that affect
Chemical Weathering:
1. Water
2. Oxygen
3. Acid Rain
4. Living Organisms
5. Carbon Dioxide
WATER
Water dissolves rock chemically.
OXYGEN
Rocks that has iron in
it mixes with
oxygen and rusts.
ACID RAIN
Air pollution reacts
with clouds and
falls on the rock as
acid rain.
LIVING ORGANISM
Acids from plants and
roots chemically
weather rock.
CARBON DIOXIDE
CO2 dissolves
in rainwater
and weathers
marble and
limestone.
MASS WASTING
It is the movement of
rock, soil and regolith
downward due to the
action of gravity.
Mass Wasting is triggered by the ff.
factors:

Over-Steepened Slope
Water
Earthquake
Vegetation Removal
Over-Steepened Slope
Rapid movements are commonly found in steep
slopes while slow movements are found on
gentle slopes.
Water
Rainwater adds weight and acts as a lubricant
to weathered
material.
EARTHQUAKE
It is a vibration and also a factor that
triggers
mass wasting.
VEGETATION REMOVAL
The lack of vegetation cover
to hold the
loose particles.
EROSION
is the action of surface processes
that remove soil, rock, or
dissolved material from one
location on the Earth's crust, and
then transport it to another
location.
Agents of Erosion
Water
Wind
Ice
Gravity
Erosion by Water
 It changes the shape of coastlines. Waves constantly
crash against shore. They pound rocks into pebbles and
reduce pebbles to sand.
 Water sometimes takes
sand away from beaches.
This moves the coastline
farther inland.
Erosion by Wind
It carries dust, sand, and volcanic ash from
one place
to another.
Wind can
sometimes blow
sand into
towering dunes.
Erosion by Ice
 It can erode the land. In frigid areas and on some
mountaintops, glaciers move slowly downhill and across
the land.
 As they move,
they pick up everything
in their path, from tiny
grains of sand to huge
boulders.
Erosion by Gravity
Gravity pulls any loose bits down the side of a hill
or mountain.
Gravity Erosion is
Better known as
Mass Movement.
SEDIMENTATION
It is a natural process in
which a material is
carried to the bottom of
bodies of water and
forms to solid.
 Ocean Basins
Are those areas found under the sea. They
can be relatively
inactive areas where
deposits of sediment
Slowly collect are
active areas where
Tectonic plate meets.
IDENTIFICATION:
 It is the movement of rock, soil and regolith downward
due to the action of gravity.
 It is a factor that affect chemical weathering. Rocks that
has iron in it mixes with oxygen and rusts.
 It is better known as MASS MOVEMENT.
 It happens when rock is physically broken into smaller
pieces.
 It is a factor that affect physical weathering. Surface
rock erodes, rock flakes like onion layers.
ANSWERS:
MASS WASTING
OXYGEN
EROSION BY GRAVITY OR GRAVITY
EROSION
SEDIMENTATION
RELEASE OF PRESSURE
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