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    Weathering and Erosion WebQuest

    OVERVIEW: This activity will help you learn more about the processes and causes of
    weathering and erosion and how they shape the earth’s surface. There will be several
    websites for you to click on and a few animations to watch that demonstrate these
    processes.

    LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
    Students will be able to:
    · Differentiate and describe the processes of weathering and erosion
    · Differentiate and describe the processes of mechanical and chemical weathering

    Part 1: Weathering vs. Erosion vs. Deposition


    1. Go to How it Works: How Landslides Work

    2. Define weathering: the breaking down of rocks

    3. CLEARLY explain how weathering is different from erosion:


    Weathering is the breaking down rocks, while erosion is the movement of sediment to a new
    position.

    4. List the two types of weathering and list all examples. Be complete, you may use the textbook
    as well.

    a) chemical weathering: acid rain breaking down a rock.

    b) mechanical weathering: the wind blows sand into a rock slowly breaking it down

    5. Define deposition: when sediments are deposited or dropped of after being eroded.

    Part 2: Grand Canyon


    6. Go to the following link and click “View” to watch a short video for how the Grand Canyon was
    formed: https://florida.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/ess05.sci.ess.earthsys.canyon/the-grand-
    canyon-how-it-formed/
    Summarize its formation process.

    After two of the earths tectonic plates collided water flowed slowly through the Colorado plateau
    weathering the rocks around it leading to the canyon to grow bigger over a long time.

    Part 3: Weathering and Erosion


    1. What is weathering? The natural breaking down of rocks over time

    2. Physical weathering is caused by physical processes such as: abrasion

    3. Complete the table below to explain how each factor affects weathering.

    Factor Weathering Effect


    Physical Rock are broken into sediment.

    Animals Rocks may have animal foot prints or fossils embedded


    inside.

    Plants Roots may grow into the cracks further expanding them.

    People Use big tools like excavators, and terraform the land around
    them

    Wind, Waves, They happen over time slowly decaying the rocks
    Gravity

    Freezing and Water gets into crack then freezes and expands widening the
    Thawing cracks.

    Chemical

    Water Slowly breaks down rocks due to the acid in the water

    Oxygen oxygen causes rust which slowly decays metals and minerals

    Carbon Dioxide Mixes with rain to make an acidic mixture that breaks down
    (CO2) rocks

    Living Organisms When plants decay they leave behind a chemical that slowly
    weathers rocks

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