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Weathering Website Station Copy the name of the station in your notebook

Background: Conditions and processes in the environment cause stone and other materials to break apart. Weathering is the term used to describe breaking rocks into smaller fragments. Weathering changes things gradually over a long period of time.

In this station, you will explore a website to investigate weathering!

Navigate your Web Browser to http://tinyurl.com/4zz2rsb

>Use the buttons to explore how water and oxidation change each of the four scenes.

>If you have headphones or earbuds, connect them and listen to the narration that accompanies each process.

>You may go through each process more than once.

Station Summary: Respond using complete sentences.

1. Identify a scene that shows physical (a/k/a mechanical) weathering. Explain.

2. What do you think would be the weathering effects of moving a rock sculpture from a dry climate to a wet climate?

3. Identify a scene that could be affected by both physical and chemical weathering – and explain how they work in combination.