What do water wind and gravity do to rocks?

Answer 1

Wind can carry abrasive particles which weather rocks . trees can be uprooted by wind, causing the rocks at their roots to fracture. wind can create waves which can fracture or exploit an existing...

Water can chemically weather rocks by dissolving minerals, water can also physically weather rocks by fracturing them by hydraulic pressure or frost wedging.

Answer 2

WATER can dissolve chalk and limestone, rock-salt and gypsum. It can hydrolyse other rock-forming minerals such as the feldspar in granite, although very slowly.

Water in cracks may freeze, exerting tremendous lateral pressure that may crack a piece of rock off.

Flowing water both transports broken rock particles and adds to the weathering by abrasion of rock against rock in the current or by wave action.

In the partial melting of subducted ocean plates, the water in the wet sediment dragged down by the subduction acts as a flux to aid the melting.

WIND does nothing itself to rocks, but may blow sand-grains against it to wear it down.

GRAVITY alone does little beyond aiding erosion by drawing weathered-rock particles down from the parent rock.

Answer 3

Wind and water can affect rocks by carrying them around and eroding the rocks by such pressure

Answer 4

over millions of years the wind and water slam against the rocks making the rocks slowly start to break up into small fragments making the rock smaller and smaller.

Answer 5

The impact of the wind/water hits the rock it very slowly breaks down. :)

Answer 6

they melt rocks

Answer 7

because of erosion

Answer 8

Weathering