Landforms and Natural Processes

What does a geologist study?

• Rock Cycle

• Earth and how it's landforms are created and destroyed

• Human Life

• The Earth's Spheres

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A wide, round bottomed valley is shown. The valley was most likely formed from a __________.

• Glacier movement

• Wind erosion

• Flooding

• Volcanic activity

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A canyon with tall, vertical sides is shown in the picture. Which of the following most likely led to the formation of this canyon?

• A glacier

• Tectonic plate movement

• Tornado

• Moving water over the course of thousands of years.

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Jane noticed a large split in a boulder on the beach. She wondered how the rock could have cracked in half. Which statement could be true?

• The materials in the sea water washed away part of the rock.

• The crack began smaller but over time water and freezing temps caused the rock to under go cryofracturing.

• The rain pounded until a portion of the rock broke off.

• Acid rain caused the rock to disappear.

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The Mississippi River delta is the 7th largest delta in the world. Which natural process caused the delta at the end of the Mississippi River?

• Weathering

• Erosion

• Deposition

• None of these

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John realized that everyday after it rains there is more sand and dirt on the sidewalk than the day before. What natural process is moving the sand and dirt?

• Deposition

• Erosion

• Weathering

• None of these

Which landform is created from the deposition of sediments at the end of a river?

• Lake

• Mesa

• Fjord

• Delta

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This type of weathering causes changes in the chemical properties of materials on the Earth's surface.

• Deposition

• Erosion

• Mechanical weathering

• Chemical

  weathering

________ is the pileup of eroded materials.

• Erosion

• Weathering

• Deposition

• None of these

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______ is the movement of weathered and broken down materials.

• Weathering

• Erosion

• Deposition

• None of these