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Describe how ice wedging and plant roots are similar in breaking rocks down.

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they are similar because a plants roots go in the cracks in a rock and as it grows it physically breaks apart the rock and when it is cold and it rains the water seeps down into the cracks and as it freezes it expands causing the rock to physically break apart

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so they are similar because they go into the cracks in rocks and slowly expand causing the rock to break apart
There are a number of physical weathering processes that break earth materials apart, a very common one is called root wedging. Plant roots work their way into rock crevices called joints. ... Frost wedging occurs when water freezes in rock fractures
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