Test #4: Landscapes, Weathering & Erosion

What is the process that picks up and moves weathered rocks?

• Erosion
• Landslide
• Weathering

What causes the greatest erosion effect on our beaches?

• Waves
• Gravity
• Glaciers
• Wind

What is an enormous mass of ice moving over land, causing weathering of rock and soil?

• A glacier
• An iceberg
• An ice wedge
• A sand dune

How do plants weather rocks?

• Plants don't weather rocks.
• When roots grow into cracks of rocks and expand the rock breaks.
• When the plant moves water from the roots to the leaves, the rock breaks.

What is the wearing away or breaking down of rocks called?

• Weathering
• Erosion
• Glaciers

Plants help prevent erosion by

• allowing soil to wash away
• holding the soil in place
• taking nutrients out of the soil
• Plants do not help prevent erosion.

Acid rain slowly wearing away rock over time is an example of...

• chemical weathering

• physical weathering

• erosion

• deposition

The structure in this image is known as a(an)

• Meander

• Oxbow Lake

• Flood Plain

• Delta

The structure to the left in this image is known as a(an)

• Meander

• Oxbow Lake

• Flood Plain

• Delta

Wide valley through which a river flows.

• delta
• V-shaped valley
• flood plain
• alluvial fan