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Weathering and Erosion Review
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Which of the following is not an example of mechanical weathering?
Actions of animals Water Abrasion Freezing and Thawing. 30 Seconds Remaining 30
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What are the 2 types of weathering?
Mechanical and chemical Mechanical and kinetic Chemical and erosion Erosion and deposition. 30 Seconds Remaining 30
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The movement of rock particles by ice, wind, water, or gravity is:
Weathering Deposition Abrasion Erosion 30 Seconds Remaining 30
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True or False: After chemical weathering, the chemical make-up of the sediments is the same as the original rock. True False 30 Seconds Remaining 30
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Which layer of soil has the greatest amount of humus?
Horizon B; subsoil Horizon C; weathered rock Horizon A; topsoil Bedrock 30 30 Seconds Remaining
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What type of soil conservation plants crops along the curve of a slope?
Contour farming Conservation plowing Terracing Windbreaks 30 Seconds Remaining 30
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What type of mass movement causes a large chunk of Earth to slip downhill in one large mass?
Landslide Mudslide Creep Slump 30 30 Seconds Remaining
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What are the 2 processes by which glaciers erode the land?
Deflation and abrasion Plucking and Deflation Plucking and Abrasion Deflation and Deposition. 30 30 Seconds Remaining
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True or False The stronger the wind, the larger the sediments that can be moved.
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Which of the following does not influence the speed of running water?
The shape of the stream channel The age of the river. The slope of the river. The amount of water in a river. 30 30 Seconds Remaining
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What do we call the sediment that is carried in a river?
Load Till Sediment Dust 30 Seconds Remaining 30
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Freezing and thawing can weather rocks through a process called:
Deposition Ice wedging Deflation Plucking 30 Seconds Remaining 30
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A rock containing iron becomes soft and crumbly as it begins to rust
A rock containing iron becomes soft and crumbly as it begins to rust. It has probably been chemically weathered by: Plants Carbon dioxide Oxygen Acid Rain 29 Seconds Remaining 30
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What do we call the solid layer of rock beneath all soil horizons?
Bedrock Gravel Subsoil Granite 30 30 Seconds Remaining 30
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The decayed organic material found in topsoil is referred to as:
Silt Litter Humus Clay 30 30 Seconds Remaining 30 10
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Why is soil considered to be a valuable resource?
It is important to all living things on land. It contains sand and gravel. It protects Earth’s crust. All of the above. 30 30 30 Seconds Remaining
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What event occurred in the 1930s and was responsible for the creation of soil conservation techniques? The great depression WW II The advent of the motorized plow The Dust Bowl 30 Seconds Remaining 30
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What is the order of Earth’s destructive forces?
10 What is the order of Earth’s destructive forces? Deposition, erosion, weathering. Erosion, weathering, deposition. Weathering, erosion, deposition. Weathering, deposition, erosion. 30 30 Seconds Remaining 30
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Which soil particle is the largest?
Gravel Sand Clay Silt 30 30 Seconds Remaining 30 10
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True or False: Weathering is the process by which sediment is laid down in a new location.
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Landslides, Mudflows, Creep, and Slump are all examples of what force?
runoff soil formation deflation mass movement 30 Seconds Remaining 30
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Glaciers can only form when:
More snow falls than melts There is an ice age The amount of snow exceeds the amount of rain. None of the above. 30 30
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What do we call the water that moves over Earth’s surface?
Runoff Watershed Groundwater Ice 30 Seconds Remaining 30
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A _________is a ridge of till left behind by a glacier.
Kettle Fiord Moraine Drumlin 30 :30
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True or False: The process by which wind removes surface materials is called deflation
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30 Which of the following characteristics influence the percolation rate of a sediment? Type of rock Sediment size Climate The color of the sediment. 30
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What characteristic of a material describes the ability of water to flow through that material?
Percolation rate Porosity Permeability Deposition. 30 30
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Which soil conservation technique helps to conserve soil by planting bushes or trees along the edges of a field to prevent wind erosion? :30 Terracing Windbreaks Gully reclamation Contour farming 30
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What are the 2 factors that determine the rate of weathering?
Climate and age Type of rock and age Type of rock and location Type of rock and climate. 30 30
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What is the major agent of erosion?
Wind Water Ice Gravity 30 30
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What force is responsible for creating mass movement?
Ice Wind Gravity water 30 30 Seconds Remaining
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When wind blows sand up around an obstacle, it can create a:
Sand dune Loess deposit Moraine mudslide 30 0 of 30
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True or False: The mixture of sediments deposited by a glacier is called loess.
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What do we call the periods in history in which Earth was covered in glaciers?
Epochs Bronze Age Ice Age Jurassic period 30 0 of 30
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What are the 2 types of glaciers?
Valley and Arctic Valley and Mountain Continental and Arctic Continental and Valley 30 0 of 30
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