Earth Science Review Quiz 1

What does erosion do?

• Break down rock

• changes rock chemically

• changes sediment in rock

• moves broken pieces of rock, or sediment, from one place to another

Beaches that have eroded are reclaimed through____________.

• weathering

• Building of sea walls

• beach nourishment

• building of terraces

Which feature forms from wind deposition?

• flood plains
• sand dunes
• deltas
• moraines

A ________________________ structure is built across a river to control its flow.

• dam
• transform
• fault
• storm drain

Volcanoes and earthquakes are both _______________ and ______________ processes because they can destroy AND build up the Earth.

• divergent and destructive
• constructive and destructive
• convergent and divergent
• sediment and weathering

Erosion helps move ___________ from one place in order to deposit it someplace else.

• sediment
• transform
• erosion
• weathering

An earthquake is caused by a crack in the crust called a __________.

• fault

• dam

• plates

• transform

Deposition is a process that ______________.

• Dissolves sediment
• Removes sediment from landforms
• breaks down rock to form sediment
• drops sediment to form landforms

Where do deltas form?

• in desert areas

• on the banks of rivers

• at river mouths

• in valleys formed by glaciers

What is weathering?

• the break down of rock
• the transport of sediment
• a type of climate
• the aging of rock