Activity 1- Man, Animals, Plants and Rocks
In this Activity. You will observe how man, animals and plants break
down rocks to soil. Write your answers on the answer sheet.
What to do:
even draw them in your notebook
1. Go round your garden. Look for plants that grew in rocks. Observe them. You may
2. Observe how the roots of the plants anchor themselves in the rocks,
3. Observe a place which is often walked-through by people and animals.
4. Record your observations.
Answer these:
1. What happened to the rocks where the plants grow?
2. Do roots have something to do with in the breakdown of rocks? How?
3. Describe the rocks that you saw in the place where people and animals often
walk-through. How do they look, like? Why?
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Answers & Comments
Answer:
1. what happened to the rocks where the plants grow?
• organic weathering happen when plants break up rock with their growing roots or plant acid help dissolve rock, once the rock ha weakened broken up the weathering it is ready for erosion. erosion happen when rocks and sediment are pick up and moved to another placed by ice, water, wind, or gravity.
2. do roots have something to do with in the breakdown of rocks how?
• roots don't grow fast, but their certainly powerful in time, the whole rock can split apart, although they grow slowly tree roots are strong enough to break solid rock.
3. describe the rocks that you saw in the place where peoples and animals often walk through, how do they look like? why?
•sedimentary rocks are rocks made from pieces of other rocks these are the most common type of rock that covers the earth surface with approximately 75% of the rocks
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