Mass Movement (Leaving Cert)

There is another term to describe mass movement. What is it?

What is the material that moves during mass movement known as?

• Alluvium

• Scree

• Regolith

• Stuff

Which of the following are all factors that affect mass movement?

• Water content

  Soil type

  Gradient

  Vegetation

• Vegetation Cover

  Human Activity

  Population density

  Rock type

• Human Activity

  Gradient

  Tectonic Activity

  Water Content

• Weathering

  Rainfall

  Temperature

  Mineral Content

How many classifications/categories of mass movement are there?

• 5

• 6

• 3

• 4

Slide, Creep, Flow...... Name the missing category:

Name the type of mass movement depicted here:

In soil creep, sediments move at what approximate rate per year?

• 1cm/yr

• 0.75cm/yr

• 6.2cm/yr

• 0.5cm/yr

Which process of weathering most affects soil creep?

• Carbonation

• Solifluction

• Freeze-Thaw

• Hydrolysis

Name the type of mass movement depicted here

• Soil Creep

• Bogflow

• Grass creep

• Solifluction

In slides, there are two types of movement of material - one is translational - what is the other called?

• positional

• vertical

• rotational

• horizontal