question archive 1) What is contained in soil? 2) what chemical weathering process is linked to the formation of sinkholes, caves and caverns? Explain how? 3) list at least three factors that can increase the rate of weathering in rocks 4) Two internationally-renowned rock climbing areas have limestone rock
1) What is contained in soil? 2) what chemical weathering process is linked to the formation of sinkholes, caves and caverns? Explain how? 3) list at least three factors that can increase the rate of weathering in rocks 4) Two internationally-renowned rock climbing areas have limestone rock
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1) What is contained in soil? 2) what chemical weathering process is linked to the formation of sinkholes, caves and caverns? Explain how? 3) list at least three factors that can increase the rate of weathering in rocks 4) Two internationally-renowned rock climbing areas have limestone rock. El Chorro is in mainland Spain, and has a dry climate with little precipitation. Tonsai is a beach on the coast of Thailand; here, the rock is constantly exposed to moist, salty air. Which of these climbing areas is known for having fragile rocks that can break and endanger climbers? Use you knowledge of weathering to explain this phenomenon.
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- All soil is made up of inorganic mineral particles , organic particles (including living things ) , air and water.
- Chemical weathering dissolves large portions of limestone or other rock on the surface of the earth to form a landscape called karst. In these areas, the surface is pockmarked with holes, sinkholes and caves. Thus, sinkhole is a natural hole that forms in the earth's surface as a result of the chemical weathering of carbonate rocks as well as salt beds that can be severely weathered as water runs through them. however the carbonic acid devolves certain kinds of rocks , like limestone . Once the acidic water enters the cracks into the cracks and dissolves away the rock to create the rooms, passageways and speleothems of a cave.
- Factors that can increase the rate of weathering include, - climate which includes rainfall and temperature -,Soil are the host of different vegetation,bacteria, organisms that produce acidic environment which promotes chemical weathering. -length of exposure as the longer he rock is exposed to the agents of weathering the greater the degree of alteration.
- Tonsoi rocks in the coast of Thailand are not safe for climbing due to their fragility which is caused by a weathering process where the rocks have reacted with oxygen forming an oxide which has weakened the rocks. in the same process water has mixed with carbon dioxide making carbonic acid which has penetrated the rocks creating caves in the rocks hence not safe for climbing. -
