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WorksheetsUnit 5-3
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
How did this cave, in limestone, form?
Water flows through cracks in the surface rocks and dissolves the limestone over thousands of years.
Water flows through cracks in the surface rocks and creates the limestone over thousands of years.
Wind flows through cracks in the surface rocks and creates the limestone over thousands of years.
Wind flows through cracks in the surface rocks and dissolves the limestone over thousands of years.
The image below shows a point bar and a cutbank of a meander. What happens to sediments at these locations?
Sediments are deposited on a point bar and on a cutbank.
Sediments are eroded from a point bar and from a cutbank.
Sediments are eroded from a point bar and deposited on a cutbank.
Sediments are eroded from a cutbank and deposited on a point bar.
What process formed the Grand Canyon?
The wind eroded the rock into a canyon.
Lake Mead eroded the canyon.
The flow of the Colorado river created the Grand Canyon over the course of millions of years.
A glacier created the Grand Canyon over the course of millions of years.
What is subduction?
When the continental crust slides under the oceanic crust.
When the oceanic crust slides under the oceanic crust.
When the continental crust slides under the continental crust.
When the oceanic crust slides under the continental crust.
What type of erosion caused this?
Frost Wedging
Abrasion
Sandblasting
Dissolving
he same starting landscape shape was eroded two times, resulting in the images below. What most likely accounts for the differences in the resulting landscapes?
Landscape A is made of shale, while landscape B is made of sandstone.
Landscape A experienced higher precipitation than landscape B.
Landscape A experienced higher average temperatures than landscape B
Landscape A had less vegetation than landscape B.
What is the shape of a glacier formed valley?
U
V
Z
W
What might have caused this formation?
Wind Erosion
Sand Erosion
Wave Erosion
Water Erosion
Which layer is probably shale?
Layer A
Layer B
Neither
Both
How long would this formation take to form?
Millions of Years
12 years
Hundreds of years
Billions of years
