Karst landscape

Select ways to control mass movement from the options below:

• Plant vegetation cover

• Increase the amount of grazing sheep

• use controlled explosions

• add steps into steep slopes

• reduce traffic

Karst underground features include (Choose 3 correct answers)

• Cave

• Pillars

• Stalactites

• Swallow hole

• Limestone pavement

What is the name given to a mudflow that is caused by meltwater from a snow-capped volcanic mountain after an eruption?

By how much (per cent wise) does water expand by when frozen ?

True or false: A cavern is bigger than a cave?

• True

• False

Limestone is made up of

• mica

• calcium carbonate

• quartz

• feldspar

A Joint is

• the long vertical cracks in limestone rock

• the long horizontal cracks in limestone rock

• the long vertical cracks in marble rock

• the long vertical cracks in sandstone rock

Look at the image and select the correct statement...

• The icicle-like features hanging from the roof of the cave are stalagmites and the ones on the floor are stalactites

• The icicle-like features hanging from the roof of the cave are stalactites and the ones on the floor are stalagmites

Which specific process of weathering is responsible for creating the landforms found in a Karst landscape?

• Filtration

• Freeze Thaw Action

• Carbonation

• Saltation

A process that breaks up rocks using PHYSICAL changes that don't change the actual substance.  

• Chemical Weathering 
• Animals 
• Plants 
• Mechanical Weathering