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WorksheetsUnit 2: Earth's Surface (Review)
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 5mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is the process by which sediment and other materials are moved from one place to another?
a)
Deposition
b)
Erosion
c)
Wind
d)
Movement
2.
What is the amount of water that a stream carries in a given amount of time?
a)
Discharge
b)
Flow
c)
Water
d)
Load
3.
What is the measure of change in elevation over a certain distance?
a)
Elevation
b)
Slope
c)
Height
d)
Gradient
4.
What is the process by which eroded material is dropped?
a)
Erosion
b)
Wind
c)
Deposition
d)
Flow
5.
What are materials carried by a stream called?
a)
Load
b)
Matierals
c)
Discharge
d)
Deposition
6.
Streams that often deposit their loads in a fan-shaped pattern called a(n)?
a)
Alluvial Fan
b)
Delta
c)
Erosion
d)
Deposition
7.
Many layers of deposited sediment can form a flat area called a(n)?
a)
Delta
b)
Alluvial Fan
c)
Floodplain
d)
Dune
8.
What is a fan-shaped deposit that forms on dry land called?
a)
Alluvial Fan
b)
Floodplain
c)
Delta
d)
Erosion
9.
What is the water that is located within the rocks below the Earth's surface called?
a)
Spring Water
b)
Surface Water
c)
Freashwater
d)
Groundwater
10.
What is the place where land and a body of water meet called?
a)
Beach
b)
Shoreline
c)
Floodplain
d)
Delta
11.
What is an area of shoreline that is made up of material deposited by waves and currents called?
a)
Beach
b)
Floodplain
c)
Shoreline
d)
Desert
12.
What is an underwater or exposed ridge of sand, gravel, or shell material?
a)
Island
b)
Sandbar
c)
Barrier Island
d)
Beach
13.
What is a long, narrow island, usually made of sand, that forms parallel to the shoreline a short distance offshore?
a)
Sandbar
b)
Beach
c)
Shore
d)
Barrier Island
14.
What are mounds of wind deposited sand called?
a)
Dunes
b)
Hills
c)
Mountians
d)
Deserts
15.
What are thick deposited of windblown, fine-grained sediment called?
a)
Deflation
b)
Dunes
c)
Loess
d)
Abrasion
16.
What is a large mass of moving ice that forms by the compacting of ice and snow called?
a)
Snow
b)
Iceburg
c)
Snowball
d)
Glacier
17.
What is the general term for all material carried and deposited by a glacier?
a)
Ice Flow
b)
Glacial Drift
c)
Debris
d)
Sediment
18.
What is the extremely slow movement of material downslope called?
a)
Creep
b)
Slump
c)
Glacial Drift
d)
Erosion
19.
What is the rapid movement of a large mass of mud called
a)
Creep
b)
Slip-n-Slide
c)
Dirtslide
d)
Mudslide
20.
What is the sudden and rapid movement of a large amount of material downslope called?
a)
Creep
b)
Landslide
c)
Erosion
d)
Mudslide
21.
What is the size and shape of the land features on the Earth's surface called?
a)
Topography
b)
Geography
c)
Geology
d)
GPS
22.
What are the lines on a topographical map that connect points of equal elevation called?
a)
Red Lines
b)
Contour Lines
c)
Straight Lines
d)
Black Lines
23.
On a map, what shows the relationship between the sizes and distances shown on the map and the actual measurements on the Earth's surface?
a)
Scale
b)
Key
c)
Compass Rose
d)
Contour Lines
24.
What is the contour line that is thicker than most, and often shows an elevation called?
a)
Contour Line
b)
Index Contour
c)
Black Line
d)
Information Contour
25.
What is the difference between two contour lines called?
a)
Index Contour
b)
Scale
c)
Reference Point
d)
Contour Interval
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