Science test

Question 1

what is teh typical order of occurrence

Answer 1

weaterh erosion depostion

Question 2

what is foremd when water chemically combines wiith carbon doioxede

Answer 2

carbonic acid

Question 3

______ ____ breaks down rocks by chagning teh compositon of the rocks

Answer 3

chemical weathering

Question 4

carbon dioxide oxygen and water are often involved in chemical weather

Answer 4

true

Question 5

of the conditonsl listed which is the most favorable for chemical weathering dry climate little vegetation or moist climate

Answer 5

moist climate

Question 6

_____ ____ breaks down rocks through a physical process

Answer 6

mechanical weathering

Question 7

when water enters a crack in a rock expns as it freezzes and cracks the rock what has occured

Answer 7

frost wedging

Question 8

________ is a process wherevby thin sheets or layers of rock flake off lareger rocks often shaping theme ito rounded outcroppings or boulders

Answer 8

exfoliation

Question 9

_______ breaks down rocks through the action of plants and animals

Answer 9

biological weatehreing

Question 10

which of these is always involved in mass wasting gravity water wind waves

Answer 10

gravity

Question 11

the downhill movement of lareg quantities of rocks an ssoil due to gravity is called

Answer 11

mass wasting

Question 12

a type of mass wasting that slips just a short distance is ______

Answer 12

a slump

Question 13

what is the process of wearing awyay rock and transporting sedimetns

Answer 13

erosion

Question 14

what is the rapid moveent of allarge mass of any type of earth materials down a steep slope

Answer 14

landslide

Question 15

a winter avalanche is not considered mass wasting because it involves only ice and snow

Answer 15

false

Question 16

the size of boulders and rocks that can be carried by a stream i;s detemined by the volume of flowing water wider streams can carry larger rokcs and boulders

Answer 16

false

Question 17

what is the motion of lareger sedimetn particles hopping along a stream bed

Answer 17

saltatation

Question 18

most of the sediment load i a stream is carried as _____ ____

Answer 18

suspended sedimetns

Question 19

an alluvial fan is like a river delta on land

Answer 19

true

Question 20

the formation of a delta is most closely realted to the process of what

Answer 20

depostion

Question 21

what is teh process of forming desert pavements by wind erosion

Answer 21

deflation

Question 22

deflation is to desert pavemtsn a s ____ is to ventifacts

Answer 22

abrasion

Question 23

what is a hill or ridge or windblown snadn q

Answer 23

sand dune

Question 24

loess depostis are thought to have been formed by the action of what

Answer 24

wind

Question 25

when two or more glaciers merge ad spread out onto a plain at the base of a mountain ragne it is called a what

Answer 25

valley glaciers

Question 26

some galciers can be found near the equator but only in high mountains

Answer 26

ture

Question 27

a rock glacier is basiclally a standard galcier that contains more rock than ice

Answer 27

true

Question 28

a _______________ is a large mass of ice consisting mostly of recrystalied snow tha tmoves under the influence of gravity

Answer 28

glacier

Question 29

what is teh most common galcier foroming high up in the moutnaisn

Answer 29

valley galcier

Question 30

sudden glacier movement is called a ____ ___

Answer 30

glaciel surge

Question 31

what is a bowl like depression left by a melte glacier often filled with water forming a small lake called

Answer 31

cirques

Question 32

what is a galciated valley that ocean water has entered

Answer 32

fjord

Question 33

what are any depostis of sedimetns left by a galcier called

Answer 33

glaciel drift

Question 34

rock materials that eventually pile up along the sides of a galcier form fjords

Answer 34

false

Question 35

waht is a ridge of till depostied by a galcier

Answer 35

morains

Question 36

ong streamlined hills composed of unsorted glacial till are called

Answer 36

drumlins

Question 37

what is teh name for the depression in the round moraine that remains when a block of glacie ice melts

Answer 37

kettle

Question 38

what is a winding ridge of sorted sedimetns deposited by a metlwater stream flowing benath a glacier

Answer 38

eskers

Question 39

thin bands of sediemtn formed on the bottomes of lakes that are fed by galcial meltwater are referred to as what

Answer 39

varves

Question 40

counting varves is arelibale method of dating glacial lake sedimetns

Answer 40

false

Question 41

in a few limited places in the world the orignal created soils can still be found

Answer 41

false

Question 42

what is the layer of soil resulting from the weatrering of bedrock

Answer 42

hroizon

Question 43

any fertile soil must contain what

Answer 43

organic material

Question 44

is a valubale topsoil containeing equal parts sand and silt with about half as mushc clay

Answer 44

loam

Question 45

soil in rainy climates tend sto be acidic

Answer 45

true

Question 46

plucking is atype of erosion caused by whta

Answer 46

glacier