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Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 14mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is a very high, natural place, higher than a hill?
a)
Valley
b)
Mountain
c)
Plateau
2.
A low place between mountains.
a)
River
b)
Hill
c)
Valley
3.
Large flat area of land that is higher than the surrounding land.
a)
Plateau
b)
Valley
c)
Hill
4.
Large flowing body of water that usually empties into an ocean or sea.
a)
Lake
b)
Creek
c)
River
5.
A low, watery land formed at the mouth of a river.
a)
River Bed
b)
Delta
c)
Marsh
6.
What is DEPOSITION?
a)
hold
b)
the breaking down of sediments
c)
the movement of sediments
d)
the dropping of sediments
7.
What is WEATHERING?
a)
the movement of sediments
b)
the breaking down of sediments
c)
hold
d)
the dropping of sediments
8.
What is EROSION?
a)
the movement of sediments
b)
the breaking down of sediments
c)
the dropping of sediments
d)
squeeze
9.
__________________ is the loose top layer of the Earth’s surface; made of small particles of rock, bits of plant material and living organisms
a)
flood
b)
clay
c)
soil
d)
weathering
10.
Choose a man made structure that can change the course of a river.
a)
mountain
b)
bridge
c)
median
d)
levee
11.
Which is NOT a way that erosion occurs?
a)
water
b)
heat
c)
wind
d)
ice
12.
Which rock particle is the largest?
a)
clay
b)
pebbles
c)
silt
d)
sand
13.
Which is heavier- sand, water, clay?
a)
sand
b)
water
c)
clay
14.
In which stream table were the canyons wider, deltas longer, and materials deposited farther down the stream table?
a)
sloped
b)
standard
15.
Arches, buttes, mesa, gorge, valley, canyon, meander, hoodoo are created due to __________________________.
a)
weathering
b)
deposition
c)
erosion
16.
The stream table represents what occurred over many many years when the COLORADO RIVER eroded the Colorado ___________.
a)
Delta
b)
Channel
c)
River
d)
Plateau
17.
What does rock material have to have in order for it to be SOIL?
a)
organic material (humus)
b)
water
c)
dirt
18.
Alluvial fan, beach, floodplain, delta, sandbar, levee, moraine, plain, sand dune are created due to ___________________.
a)
weathering
b)
erosion
c)
deposition
19.
TRUE OR FALSE:
Erosion and deposition occur A LOT faster when there is a flood. Canyons are longer and wider and events happen very faster than in the standard and slope stream table.
Erosion and deposition occur A LOT faster when there is a flood. Canyons are longer and wider and events happen very faster than in the standard and slope stream table.
a)
True
b)
False
20.
What is the low area where sediments are often deposited?
a)
valley
b)
basin
c)
channel
d)
hill
21.
a curve or the path water takes in a stream or river
a)
channel
b)
water source
c)
meander
d)
river
22.
What settles out the farthest in the tray? What reaches the drainage basin first?
a)
sand
b)
clay
c)
water
23.
Gravity, wind, water, waves, ice can cause _____________________.
a)
floods
b)
erosion
c)
rain
d)
channels
24.
A stream table is a _____________ of the effects of depositon and erosion.
a)
map
b)
model
c)
process
25.
If erosion is like subtraction,
___________________ is like addition.
___________________ is like addition.
a)
floods
b)
channels
c)
deposition
d)
hills
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