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Erosion is a natural part of the environment; it is when it interferes with human needs that it becomes âbad.â. Even when nutrient-rich materials like topsoil are removed by erosion, the nutrients are transported elsewhere â the loss in one place is a benefit in another. But that other benefit may not be something suitable to people.
Erosion is the process that breaks things down. As far as we're concerned, erosion is the breakdown of the continents and the land around you. The overall effect of breaking down and weathering the land is called denudation. Denudation is the process of erosion. In nature, large things are broken down into smaller things. Boulders become sand. Mountains are rained on and become hills. The pieces of the mountain become smaller pieces and go down the sides of hills. Weathering and erosion always happen in a downhill direction. Erosion is an easy idea to understand. If you see a rock, pull it out of a mountain. Then throw it down on the ground. You are now a part of the erosion of that mountain.