ESS Unit 5 Study Quiz

plains are formed from

• thermal upwelling

• lava flows and sediment deposition

• orogeny along plate boundaries

• rifting

index contour lines

• show slope

• show contour intervals

• show elevation with numbers

• provide a scale

lahars are caused by

• slippage on a steep slope

• heavy rains after a drought

• an earthquake

• volcanic eruptions melting snow

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what size sediment can MOST EASILY be transported by both wind and water?

• sand

• pebbles

• clay/silt

• boulders

glaciers erode bedrock by

• depositing rock flour

• using large boulders as cutting tools as they move downhill

• transporting silt and clay sized sediments in parallel lines

• accumulating falling boulders from the sides of cliffs

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Arches National Park formed by which two erosive processes?

• wind

• glaciers

• gravity

• water

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Banded Iron Formations were formed when the first atmospheric oxygen combined with iron in the exposed rock. This is an example of what kind of chemical weathering?

• hydrolysis

• carbonation

• oxidation

• organic acids

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Lichens can weather away rock through

• chemicals released through their roots

• increasing the size of cracks through their roots

• hydrolysis

• ice wedging

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Half Dome was created due to which kind of mechanical weathering?

• thermal changes

• abrasion

• ice wedging

• exfoliation

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the mass movement pictured is known as

• slump

• creep

• mudflow

• lahar

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