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K TO 12 BASIC EDUCATION CURRICULUM

SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
CORE SUBJECTS

GRADE : Grade 11
SUBJECT TITLE : EARTHSCIENCE
SEMESTER : 1ST SEMESTER

SUBJECT DESCRIPTION : This learning area is designed to provide a general background for the understanding
of the Earth on a planetary scale. It presents the history of the Earth through geologic time. It discusses the Earth’s
Structure and composition, the processes that occur beneath and on the Earth’s surface, as well as issues, concerns
and problems pertaining to Earth’s resources.

EARTHSCIENCE

QUARTER 1. CHAPTER 4 (Week 7) EARTH’S PROCESSES

CONTENT STANDARD :
4.0 EXOGENIC PROCESSES
WHAT IS WEATHERING
EROSION
MASS WASTING
SEDIMENTATION

PERFORMANCE STANDARDS :
The learners shall be able to :
Analyze and make a simple plan showing places where erosion and landslides may pose risk in the
community.

LEARNING COMPETENCIES :
The learners :
1. Define weathering, soil erosion and mass wasting
2. Discuss the type of weathering
3. Discuss deposition and erosion

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EXOGENIC PROCESS
are geological phenomena and processes that originate externally to the Earth's surface.

WEATHERING
An environmental forces that influences the continuous breakdown, wearing away and loosening
of rocks and soils.

TYPES OF WEATHERING
1.PHYSICAL WEATHERING- the kind of weathering is also known as mechanical
weathering. It involves the physical breakdown of rock – it does not involve chemical change.

Physical Weathering can be any of the following :

1.Frost Wedging or Freeze Thaw

• Is the breakdown of rocks due to the expansion of water during freezing.
• During freezing, exerts pressure

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2. Salt Crystallization
• Is the process where water passing through the rocks may be saline, the rock is decomposed by
solution, therefore the crystals put stresses upon the rock as they grow resulting into breaking off
rocks.
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THERMAL EXPANSION

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THERMAL EXPANSION

GROWTH OF PLANTS

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Chemical weathering decomposes rock through chemical reactions that change the original
rock- forming minerals.

Factors that affect type,extent and rate at which weathering takes place:
Climate
Rock Type
Rock Structure
Topography
Time

MASS WASTING
• Is commonly known as landslide,
• Mass wasting is generally defined as the down slope movement of a mass sediment and/or rock
mainly due to the forceof gravity

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Events triggered of Mass Wasting Process
Shocks and Vibrations
Undercutting
Slope Modification
Changes in hydrologic characteristic
Changes in slope strength
Volcanic Eruptions

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ESSAY : ACTIVITY EXOGENIC PROCESS

1. What factors contribute to mass wasting?

2. Considering the youth of the 21century can you contribute on caring our environment
to avoid mass wasting and soil erosion. How? (at least 150 words)

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