Erosion, weathering, and deposition are at work everywhere on Earth. Gravity pulls everything toward the center of Earth causing rock and other materials to move downhill. Water's movements (both on land and underground) cause weathering and erosion, which change the land's surface features and create underground formations.
The effects of these processes are as follows:
Changes in shape, size, and texture of land-forms (i.e. mountains, riverbeds, and beaches)
Landslides
Buildings, statues, and roads wearing away
Soil formation
Washes soil, pollutants, harmful sediments into waterways
Causes metals to rust
Reduces beaches, shorelines
Delta formation
Formation of various new landforms. Erosion, weathering, and deposition are at work everywhere on Earth. Gravity pulls everything toward the center of Earth causing rock and other materials to move downhill. Water's movements (both on land and underground) cause weathering and erosion, which change the land's surface features and create underground formations.
The effects of these processes are as follows:
Changes in shape, size, and texture of land-forms (i.e. mountains, riverbeds, and beaches)
Landslides
Buildings, statues, and roads wearing away
Soil formation
Washes soil, pollutants, harmful sediments into waterways
Causes metals to rust
Reduces beaches, shorelines
Delta formation
Formation of various new landformsErosion, weathering, and deposition are at work everywhere on Earth. Gravity pulls everything toward the center of Earth causing rock and other materials to move downhill. Water's movements (both on land and underground) cause weathering and erosion, which change the land's surface features and create underground formations.
The effects of these processes are as follows
Changes in shape, size, and texture of land-forms (i.e. mountains, riverbeds, and beaches)
Landslides
Buildings, statues, and roads wearing away
Soil formation
Washes soil, pollutants, harmful sediments into waterways
Causes metals to rust
Reduces beaches, shorelines
Delta formation
Formation of various new land forms.
