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WorksheetsRocks & Soil
Total questions: 34
Worksheet time: 30mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What type of rock forms from stratification?
a)
Intrusive
b)
Igneous
c)
Sedimentary
d)
Metamorphic
2.
Which type of rock results from melting and cooling of magma?
a)
Igneous
b)
Metamorphic
c)
Sedimentary
d)
Extrusive
3.
Which type of rock forms from extreme heat and pressure?
a)
Igneous
b)
Sedimentary
c)
Organic
d)
Metamorphic
4.
Which type of igneous rock forms above ground?
a)
Intrusive
b)
Organic
c)
Extrusive
d)
Foliated
5.
Wind, water, and ice breaking down rock is called
a)
Erosion
b)
Deposition
c)
Compaction
d)
Weathering
6.
What is the MAIN way rocks are classified?
a)
Their color and shapes
b)
How they form
c)
Mineral bands
d)
Where they form
7.
This rock was formed when magma cooled very slowly inside the Earth. What specific type of rock is it?
a)
Intrusive Igneous Rock
b)
Extrusive Igneous Rock
c)
Foliated Metamorphic Rock
d)
Clastic Sedimentary Rock
8.
This rock formed when bits of other rocks became pressed into a solid. What type of rock is it?
a)
Sedimentary Rock
b)
Metamorphic Rock
c)
Igneous Rock
9.
This rock formed when lava cooled very quickly on Earth's surface. What specific type of rock is it?
a)
Extrusive Igneous Rock
b)
Intrusive Igneous Rock
c)
Non-Foliated Metamorphic Rock
d)
Biochemical Sedimentary Rock
10.
What is deposition?
a)
Dropping off sediment
b)
Movement of sediment
c)
Breaking down of sediment
11.
Rain washing away soil from a hillside
a)
Weathering
b)
Erosion
c)
Deposition
12.
Glaciers scraping rocks across the earth’s surface
a)
Weathering
b)
Erosion
c)
Deposition
13.
Plants prevent soil erosion by-
a)
holding dirt in place with their roots
b)
providing food for herbivores
c)
the process of photosynthesis
d)
releasing water into the atmosphere through transpiration
14.
What is a thin, narrow wall built from the shoreline into the ocean?
a)
barrier island
b)
dredging
c)
jetty
d)
sea wall
15.
A severe storm would be most likely to damage a coastal area by causing
a)
erosion
b)
earthquakes
c)
pollution
d)
volcanoes
16.
What is land formed over many years by the build up of sand and dirt just offshore from the mainland?
a)
barrier island
b)
beach nourishment
c)
dredging
d)
jetty
17.
What is the dumping of new sand onto an eroded beach to restore it?
a)
barrier island
b)
beach nourishment
c)
dredging
d)
jetty
18.
What is a tall wall built along the near edge of a beach?
a)
sea wall
b)
jetty
c)
dredging
d)
barrier island
19.
What are small hills on a beach called that have been created by blowing wind?
a)
beach
b)
dunes
c)
hills
d)
waves
20.
Deforestation is
a)
Movement of population from rural areas to cities
b)
Keeping livestock that eat plants faster than the plants can recover
c)
Cutting down and removal of trees
d)
Poisoning of lakes, streams, and rivers by eroded soil, pesticide runoff, and acid rain
21.
The four agents of erosion are water, _____, ice, and gravity. What goes in the blank?
a)
Bacteria
b)
Volcanoes
c)
Sunlight
d)
Wind
22.
Weathering and erosion are the same thing.
a)
True
b)
False
23.
All of the following are causes of physical weathering except...
a)
plant growth
b)
wind
c)
acid rain
d)
running water
24.
What is sediment?
a)
the process of rocks being broken down and carried away
b)
bits of rock, sand, and silt caused by the weathering of rocks
c)
the top layer of the soil
d)
decaying plant or animal material
25.
In the Philippines, they practice _________________ on the steep sides of the mountains in order to plant their rice fields.
a)
leaching
b)
terracing
c)
contour farming
d)
no-till farming
26.
What is the name of a soil that is:
85% Sand
10% Silt
5% Clay
85% Sand
10% Silt
5% Clay
a)
Sand
b)
Silt loam
c)
Loamy sand
d)
Sandy loam
27.
Which of the following is the most important soil formation factor
a)
Time
b)
Climate
c)
Slope
d)
Organisms
28.
The four types of soil are _____.
a)
humus, gravel, pebbles, sand
b)
sand, silt, clay, loam
c)
sand, rock, pebbles, granite
d)
sand, clay, bedrock, topsoil
29.
When water freezes and thaws causing rocks to weather it is called
a)
weathering
b)
ice wedging
c)
chemical weathering
d)
erosion
30.
When a farmer plows his field along the curves of a slope, it is called
a)
sod plowing
b)
contour plowing
c)
no-till plowing
d)
terrace plowing
31.
Which type of climate will cause rapid weathering
a)
Dry and hot
b)
dry and cold
c)
wet and hot
d)
wet and cold
32.
Organic material formed in soil from decayed remains of plants and animals
a)
residual soil
b)
parent rock
c)
bedrock
d)
humus
33.
Process of land becoming a desert
a)
erosion
b)
habitat
c)
soil conservation
d)
desertification
34.
What force causes all types of mass movement?
a)
convection
b)
temperature
c)
gravity
d)
compaction
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