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• ice or frost wedging,is a type of mechanical weathering that occur in cold climate
• mechanical weathring plants occur when roots grow into cracks in a rock called root wedging
• the process of changing solid rocks into sediments on eartg surface is called weathering
• when the rock is broken down by chemical reaction,this is called chemical weathering
• a weathering process that peels away rock layer is called exfoliation
• scientist thoerize that the driving force behind this plate movement is mantle convention
• the litosphere layd on a semi fluid part of earth also known as asthenosphere
• subduction zone form because because a denser tectonic plate moves downward underneath the less dense plate
• a section of the crust is folded and deform to form a mountaih range is called orogenesis