WorksheetsChapter 3, Sec 3-6 Vocabulary Quiz
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 11mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
The ability to do work or cause change.
a)
potential energy
b)
energy
c)
kinetic energy
2.
Energy that is stored and available to be used later.
a)
potential energy
b)
energy
c)
kinetic energy
3.
The energy an object has due to its motion.
a)
potential energy
b)
energy
c)
kinetic energy
4.
The grinding away of rock by other rock particles carried in water, ice, or wind.
a)
deposition
b)
erosion
c)
abrasion
5.
The amount of sediment that a river or stream carries.
a)
loess
b)
load
c)
till
6.
The force that opposes the motion of one surface as it moves across another surface.
a)
abrasion
b)
friction
c)
erosion
7.
A type of movement of water in which, rather than moving downstream, the water moves every which way.
a)
plucking
b)
flow
c)
turbulence
8.
A large mass of moving ice and snow on land.
a)
drumlin
b)
glacier
c)
ice berg
9.
A glacier that covers much of a continent or large island.
a)
valley glacier
b)
continental glacier
10.
Times in the past when continental glaciers covered large parts of Earth's surface.
a)
ice age
b)
era
c)
millenium
11.
A long, narrow glacier that forms when snow and ice build up in a mountain valley.
a)
valley glacier
b)
continental glacier
12.
The process by which a glacier picks up rocks as it flows over the land.
a)
turbulence
b)
rolling
c)
plucking
13.
The sediments deposited directly by a glacier.
a)
kettle
b)
till
c)
cirque
14.
A ridge formed by the till deposited at the edge of a glacier.
a)
fjord
b)
drumlin
c)
moraine
15.
A small depression forms when a chunk of ice is left in glacial till.
a)
fjord
b)
kettle
c)
moraine
16.
A part of the shore that sticks out into the ocean.
a)
beach
b)
spit
c)
headland
17.
Wave-washed sediment along a coast.
a)
beach
b)
spit
c)
headland
18.
The movement of water and sediment down a beach caused by waves coming into shore at an angle.
a)
deflation
b)
longshore drift
c)
abrasion
19.
A beach formed by longshore drift that projects like a finger out into the water
a)
beach
b)
spit
c)
headland
20.
A deposit of wind-blown sand.
a)
sandbar
b)
beach
c)
sand dune
21.
Wind erosion that removes surface materials.
a)
inflation
b)
deflation
c)
plucking
22.
A wind-formed deposit made of fine particles of clay and silt.
a)
soil
b)
till
c)
loess
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