Physical Geography Exam review 2019

A natural disaster like Hurricane Katrina in Louisana can...

• cause people to grow crops

• build pyramids before the storm hits

• displace thousands of people from their homes

• go surfing in 300 mph winds

What is weathering?

• wearing away and changing of an object over a long period of exposure to air

• wearing away and changing of an object by human destruction

• wearing away and changing of an object by wind water and other natural objects

• the storms moving into a town

What is erosion?

• wearing away and changing of an object over a long period of exposure to air

• wearing away and changing of an object by human destruction

• wearing away and changing of an object by wind water and other natural objects

• the storms moving into a town

When the sun crosses the Earth's equator and day and night are of equal length?

• Solstice

• Revolution

• Equinox

• Site

What is bedrock?

• solid rock underlying loose deposits such as soil or alluvium

• the ground you walk on entering school

• the running water in an ocean

• glaciers

Which of the following has the greatest influence on a place's climate

• Latitude

• Longitute

• wind velocity

• storm tracker

Which of the following land forms is most usually found in the interior of continents

• mountains

• plains

• oceans

• plateaus

Which of the following is a cause of a man made (caused) catastrophic event...

• lightening causing a forest fire

• changing winds causing flooding

• flash flood causing flooding

• mountainside construction causing a landslide

Which of the following is caused by the Earth spinning on its axis?

• planetary winds blow north to south in the northern hemisphere and are deflected (curved) towards the west

• the Earth's orbit around the sun

• unequal heating of the north pole

Which of the following is a modification to the environment?

• overseas expansion

• building a road though a mountain

• growing crops in a arid climate

• living in houses on a mountain slope