When the magnet is near, the compass turns and points to it. When the magnet is moved away, the compass turns back to point north and south.
Mechanical weathering is actually breaking down of rocks into smaller pieces by natural forces. Any weathering processes that can cause the physical breakdown of rocks without any type of change in the chemical composition of rocks, called mechanical weathering.
So, looking at each of the definitions in the options, we can easily choose:
1. Hydration : It's a process of absorbing water by substance.
2. Carbonation: It's a process of Carbon Dioxide dissolving in liquid (mostly water).
3. Oxidation : It's a process of oxygen reacting with some element.
4. <span>Exfoliation: It's a process where the rocks erodes by peeling off in sheets or layer by layer rather than grain by grain.
As you can see the last one </span><span>Exfoliation matches with the definition of mechanical weathering. It's one of its types.</span>
Magnetism is one aspect of the combined electromagnetic force. It refers to physical phenomena arising from the force caused by magnets, objects that produce fields that attract or repel other objects
Answer: force of gravity on the body due to height difference above the earth's surface
Explanation: as you increase the height of a body above ground, you do work against gravity in moving it from a point on the earth's surface to that point. So a body falling has a stored up gravito-potential energy which acts on it downward due to its mass, accelerating it downwards
Answer b): kinetic energy of the body
Explanation: the downward force produces an acceleration of magnitude 9.81m/s2 downwards which means an increasing velocity. This increasing velocity means the kinetic energy of the body is increasing (kinetic energy is proportional to velocity of the body squared)
