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Multiple Choice

What is a Landslide?

• A movement of snow and ice down a mountain.
• A movements of rock and mud down a slope when the slope cannot support its own weight.
• A large slide for children that can be attached to land.
• The aftereffects of an Earthquake.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following means a flood is definitely coming your way?

• Seeing an Ark
• A flood warning
• A flood watch
• Lots of rain

Multiple Choice

Why would streets get flooded during a rainstorm?

• The storm drains overflow
• Too many cars on the road
• The water soaks in
• People water their grass too much

Multiple Choice

What happens during a rainstorm when the ground can't soak up any more water?

• a tsunami
• an earthquake
• a swimming pool forms
• a flood

Multiple Choice

Why do so many landslides occur near mountains, rather than in flat areas?

• Mountains have lots of rocks.
• The trees on the mountains tend to push down the dirt.
• Mountains are big hills which allow the dirt to slide down them quickly.
• People like to build their houses near mountains.

Multiple Choice

True or False
Freezing and thawing of rocks can cause a landslide.

• True
• False

Multiple Choice

When a lot of loose dirt and rocks move rapidly, we call it

• a landslide

• a tsunami

• an earthquake

• a flood

Multiple Choice

Breaking down rocks into pieces by water, wind or ice is called...................

• weathering

• erosion

Multiple Choice

Landslides and mudflows are examples of ………………………

• weathering

• erosion

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A mudflow is …………………………

• a quick movement of wet soil downhill

• a quick movement of rocks down hill

Multiple Choice

Weathering is a process that

• carries away rocks on Earth's surface.

• breaks down rocks at the Earth's surface.

• forms new rocks on the Earth's surface.

• affects the weather on Earth's surface.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is NOT one of the causes of landslides?

• earthquakes
• wind abrasion
• fires
• volcanic eruptions

Multiple Choice

The effects of flood happen

• Quicky

• Slowly

• Not at all

• All of them

Open Ended

What can you do to stop the mountain landslide?