What is the definition of mechanical weathering?

Weathering is the decay, disintegration or altering of rocks on the earth's surface.

'Mechanical' has several different senses or meanings: 1: relating to or governed by or in accordance with mechanics; 2: relating to or concerned with machinery or tools; 3: using (or as if using)...

Mechanical- ice wedging, temperature changes, roots, animal activity It is physical changes that break down and/or cracks the rock. Chemical- oxydation, acid rain, hydration,...

Both chemical and mechanical weathering breakdown a rock into particles, just in diffrent ways. Mechanical weathering is the physical weathering in which a rock is broken down into particles....

mechanical weathering and chemical weathering are related because their both are types of weathering