What is soil erosion? How does runnung water lead to soil erosion ?

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Soil erosion is the process by which top layer of the soil gets weathered away by agents like wind, water, glaciers etc.
Running water acts as an agent of soil erosion because during rain soil gets carried away by flowing water at high speed.

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