Your students will sort examples of weathering as mechanical or chemical with this fun activity. For example, plants growing in cracks in rocks and pushing them apart is mechanical weathering, and carbonation forming in caves is chemical weathering.

Print one of the first page for each of your students so that they can paste their answers in place. The second page has the examples to be sorted. To save printing, there are two sets on each page. You can print the sheets, cut them in half down the thicker black line and distribute to your students. The third page provides the answers.

This resource is part of our Year 5 Earth and Space Sciences Unit. It is ideal to complete after viewing the Mechanical & Chemical Weathering PowerPoint.