Class 2k 1.1 - 1.4 part A

What is a rock called that forms when magma solidifies?

• Limestone

• Metamorphic rock

• igneous rock

• sedimentary rock

Where does the erosion mostly take place?

• In the upper course

• In the middel course

• In the lower course

• In the plain

What is a plain?

• A place by the shore with many rivers

• a hilly landscape

• ab entirely flat landscape

• a high mountain range

Where does clay change into?

• sedimentary rock

• sandstone

• shale

• limestone

What is sedimentary rock?

• When magma rises from the mantle and solidifies

• rock that turns into river gravel, sand or clay.

• Fossils that are found in mountains

• Sediment layers that are compressed

Is mass movement

• The transport due to wind, water and ice.

• large ice mountains

• rock moving down a slope due to gravity

• A pile of rubble of weathered rock

How long does it take for erosion to carve a deep valley?

• Billions of years

• Millions of years

• hundreds of thousands of years

• Thousand of years

How is a v-valley formed?

• by weathering

• by erosion of a glacier

• by mass movement

• by erosion of a river

How did fossils end up high in the mountains?

• The animals died on the mountain

• the ocean floor with the fossils in it where pushed up and became part of the mountain

• people put fossils in the mountain

• the fossils were brought in the mountain by the river

What are three examples of sedimentary rock?

• limestone

• granite

• sandstone

• shale

• river gravel