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Assessment

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Geography

6th Grade

Hard

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Emma Hogan

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5 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What process describes when water in cracks in the rock freezes, expands, and contracts, causing the rock to weaken and break?

Basal sliding

Plucking

Abrasion

Freeze-thaw

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which term refers to the process where ice freezes onto bedrock and pulls loose rocks away?

Rotational flow

Plucking

Bergschrund

Freeze-thaw

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the term for the grinding of a hollow by angular rock embedded in moving ice?

Rotational flow

Freeze-thaw

Abrasion

Plucking

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What helps to deepen the corrie in glacial movement?

Bergschrund

Basal sliding

Abrasion

Rotational flow

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What occurs when the glacier melts and leaves behind a small lake?

Rock lip

Bergschrund

Neve ice

Tarn