Changes to the Earth's surface Review

What kind of landforms do glaciers make?

• islands

• valley

• river

• canyon

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Stone barriers or sea walls are built along beaches to prevent coastal land from disappearing during hurricanes. What process are they preventing?

• Weathering and erosion

• friction

• deposition

• gravity

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How is this landform made?

• ice weathering and erosion

• sand weathering and erosion

• river water depositing sediments

• river water eroding and weathering soft rock

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What landform is this?

• U shaped valley

• Beach

• glacier

• V shaped valley

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What makes this land form change?

• Gravity eroding rocks.

• Rain weathering the sand.

• A river eroding the sediments.

• Wind depositing the sediments.

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This is a landslide. What is the force that causes it?

• erosion involving rocks, soil and trees from rain water

• weathering of sand dunes from a hurricane

• weathering of rocks from a glacier.

• deposition of lava from volcanoes.

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Some of the cracks are so large that the rocks

have broken apart. Which process most likely caused these rocks to crack and break?

• erosion by wind

• weathering of rock by water freezing and thawing

• erosion by fast-moving water

• sediments being deposited

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This is a glacier. What landforms will it create?

• sand dune

• U shaped valley

• V shaped valley

• delta

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This is a sea arch, what force makes this land form?

• sediments deposited in the beach

• wind erosion

• ice weathering and erosion

• water weathering and erosion through waves

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This is a beach. What process forms it?

• deposition of sediments

• weathering of rocks

• erosion of sand

• earthquakes

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