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Weathering Rock Breakdown Processes
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Rocks and Weather
🏔️ Part 1: What Happens to Rocks?
1. What happens when rocks get old and worn down?
They stay the same forever
They break into smaller pieces
They grow bigger
They turn into water
2. What can break rocks apart?
Only hammers
Water, wind, and heat
Nothing can break rocks
Only earthquakes
3. When water freezes in rock cracks, what happens?
Nothing happens
The water disappears
The ice makes the crack bigger
The rock gets warmer
4. Where do we see ice breaking rocks most often?
In hot deserts
In cold mountains
Under the sea
In warm houses
🔬 Part 2: How Rocks Change
5. What happens when tree roots grow in rock cracks?
The tree dies
The roots push the rock apart
The rock gets stronger
Nothing happens
6. What happens to some rocks when it rains?
They get cleaner
They slowly dissolve away
They grow bigger
They change colour to blue
7. Which animals can help break rocks?
Fish swimming
Birds flying
Rabbits digging burrows
Cats sleeping
8. What happens to rocks on a very hot day?
They melt like ice cream
They expand and can crack
They turn into sand immediately
They become cold
🌍 Part 3: Rocks Around Us
9. If you see a rock with cracks that are getting bigger each winter, what is probably happening?
Someone is hitting it with a hammer
Ice is forming in the cracks
The rock is growing
Aliens are visiting
10. What makes pebbles on a beach smooth and round?
They were born that way
Waves bump them together for many years
People polish them
They roll down hills
11. Which of these helps break down rocks the most?
Cars driving past
Water, wind, and temperature changes
Looking at them
Painting them
12. Why is it important that rocks break down over time?
It makes soil for plants to grow
It makes the Earth messy
It's not important
It makes rocks angry
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