Topic 4 - Test

What is physical weathering?

• Weathering caused by wind, water, ice or plants.

• When chemicals in the air interact with landforms.

• A map that often contains errors that must be corrected.

• None of the above.

List the three types of rocks.

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Rocks are often sorted by how they were ____________.

• weathered.

• formed.

• identified.

• all of the above.

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Choose the two statements that correctly identify patterns in the cycle.

• When metamorphic rock melts, sediment is formed.

• Sediments can become sedimentary rock by weathering.

• Igneous rock can undergo heat and pressure to become metamorphic rock.

• Igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks can all become sediment.

What type of map shows an area’s natural physical features, such as hills, valleys, rivers, lakes, waterfalls, and bays.

• Physical Maps

• Street Maps

• Political Maps

• Local Attractions Maps

What type of map uses contour lines to describe elevation?

• Political Map

• Topographic Map

• Street Map

• Satellite Map

Where the ocean crust moves underneath the continent, a new feature forms next to the edge of the continent in the ocean floor. This feature is represented by the numeral 4. This feature is a (mountain / cliff / trench).

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Which type of rock is formed from the cooling of magma or lava?

• Metamorphic

• Igneous

• Sedimentary

Weathering can change the physical characteristics of an area. Which statement is an example of chemical weathering?

• Freezing and thawing of water expand cracks in rock.

• Plant roots growing into cracks in rock force the rock to break.

• Rain mixes with pollutants in the air to interact with rock.

• Glaciers grind away rock as they pass over it.

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Which of the following landforms resulted from deposition?

• the Rocky Mountains

• the Colorado River Delta

• the Hudson River

• the Grand Canyon