A farmer plowed his fields just before a huge thunderstorm. The water running off the fields is carrying away some of his topsoil. What process does this describe?
A. Chemical weathering
B. Deposition
C. Physical weathering
D. Erosion

Question

A farmer plowed his fields just before a huge thunderstorm. The water running off the fields is carrying away some of his topsoil. What process does this describe? 
	A.	Chemical weathering
	B.	Deposition
	C.	Physical weathering
	D.	Erosion

thomaster · Answer

You can cancel A and B because normal rain is not chemical and no soil is deposited.
The difference between physical weathering and erosion is that with weathering, the soil gets broken into fragments. With erosion, there is a flowing agent involved which moves the fragments and deposits them somewhere else. 
So the answer would be erosion