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What role does weathering have in shaping Earth’s surface?
It allows sediments to fall out of a medium.
It helps sediments settle on a new surface.
It breaks down older material into sediments.
It transports sediments to a different location.
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It breaks down older material into sediments.
Weathering is the in-place physical, chemical, and biological breakdown of rock and minerals into smaller particles and dissolved ions. (Transport is erosion; settling is deposition.)
Weathering is the in-place physical, chemical, and biological breakdown of rock and minerals into smaller particles and dissolved ions. (Transport is erosion; settling is deposition.)
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