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WorksheetsMacade Weathering
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
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Class
Date
1.
What is mechanical weathering?
a)
Weathering by using machines to break rocks
b)
Chemicly changing the rocks makeup
c)
Physical breaking down rocks
d)
The process of metal eroding away
2.
What is Abrasion?
a)
The process of rocks or sediment breaking away from each other
b)
A term first coined by Abraham Lincoln for weathering
c)
The process in which rocks are flung into the air through water or wind
d)
The process of weathering through the burning of fossil fuels
3.
Frost action is
a)
The breaking of rock through water freezing and thawing
b)
The breaking of rock through sleet or hail
c)
The breaking of rock through Elsafication
d)
The breaking of ice through using Icebreakers to explore the arctic
4.
What is chemical weathering?
a)
Physical breaking down rocks
b)
Weathering simulated in a lab
c)
Chemically changing the rock's makeup
d)
Using chemicals to break down small rocks through chemistification
5.
What is acid rain?
a)
Rain that burns through most soft surfaces
b)
Radioactive rain produced by using nuclear power
c)
Rain that looks green due to plant's reflection
d)
Using chemicals to break down small rocks through chemistification
6.
What is the term for the rusting of rock
a)
Rustic flair
b)
Oxidation
c)
Hydroxification
d)
All of the above
7.
What are the three main factors that affect the speed in which rocks are weathered?
a)
Elevation, Climate, Makeup
b)
Makeup, Radioactivity, Climate
c)
Elevation, Climate, Makeup, Radioactivity
d)
Radioactivity, LOI (Level of Incline)
8.
Differential weathering states that
a)
the climate affects the speed of weathering
b)
weathering can appear as both mechanical and chemical
c)
climate is not the same as weather
d)
soft rocks will weather and leave behind harder rocks
9.
Oxidation will occur in warm, moist area of Brazil _____ the cold, dry climate of Antarctica.
a)
slower than
b)
and cannot occur in
c)
faster than
d)
but not
10.
You live by the ocean in Canada, far from cities. A crack in the sidewalk you noticed when you were seven years old has gotten slightly larger. Why is most likely the cause for this?
a)
Frost action
b)
Oxidation
c)
Acid rain
d)
Riding your bike
11.
One way to slow down weathering would be to
a)
move out of countryside farms
b)
clear land
c)
build a dam
d)
reduce the burning of fuel
12.
What will weather faster?
a)
small car
b)
pebble
c)
mountain
d)
large stone
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