WEATHERING AND EROSION JEOPARDY 

STUDENT ORGANIZER 

WEATHERING
	
EROSION
	
The breakdown of rocks…

	The number one agent of erosion…
	
Disintegration of rocks into smaller pieces of the same stuff…

	This type of erosion is common in a hot, dry climate…	
Decomposition of rocks into different substances…

	The primary force behind all mass movements…
	
When Oxygen reacts with minerals changing them into iron oxide…

	This agent of erosion produces U-shaped valleys…	
When rocks peel off the[ir] layers because of pressure unloading…

	This provides the energy for rivers and glaciers…