2007-05-04 07:48:28 · 7 answers · asked by Lil C 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
Mainly through physical and chemical erosion. The acid in rain and even snow, can chemically change different minerals within the rock layers. Also freeze/thaw cycles create a wedging affect on the earths surface, like a pipe that freezes and breaks because the water grows when frozen.
2007-05-04 08:07:38 · answer #1 · answered by *SnowQueen* 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Rain shapes the earth through the process of erosion...no only through direct erosion but also through the erosion of the streams, rivers, lakes and oceans it feeds.
2007-05-04 07:53:26 · answer #2 · answered by pimpinthebox79 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
As rain will always flow to the lowest point, what is not absorbed into the earth will cause erosion. Erosion takes earth from one point and delivers it to another, thereby reshaping the Earth.
2007-05-04 07:54:02 · answer #3 · answered by loufedalis 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I erodes mountains and rocks.
Millions of years ago, some of the mountains in Scotland were as big as the Himalayas!! Rain and wind have obviously shaped them.
2007-05-04 07:57:28 · answer #4 · answered by Wedge 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it rains, the water runs around and it erodes rocks and forms rivers which carve canyons and smooth out other rocks like boulders which won't be eroded as easily and over time you get those wierd shapes of rock formations and valleys and all those other things.
2007-05-04 07:54:30 · answer #5 · answered by hayseed 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Erosion wears away rocks, etc.
2007-05-04 09:48:08 · answer #6 · answered by lilith663 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
erosion, makes plants grow
2007-05-04 07:52:51 · answer #7 · answered by sumo_fly 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋