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Soil, Weathering, Erosion, and Deposition.

Total questions: 24

Worksheet time: 24mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the O horizon?

a)

Topsoil

b)

Subsoil

c)

Erosion

d)

Humus

e)

Deposition

2.

What Is the A horizon?

a)

Parent Material

b)

Soil

c)

Topsoil

d)

Bedrock

e)

None Of these

3.

What is the B horizon?

a)

Pink Soil

b)

Subsoil

c)

Bedrock

d)

Belowsoil

e)

WeatheredBedrock

4.

What is the C horizon?

a)

Rock

b)

Soil

c)

Weatheredbedrock

d)

Bedrock

e)

Purplesoil

5.

What is the R horizon?

a)

Terracing

b)

Abovesoil

c)

Bedrock

d)

Sleeprock

e)

Humus

6.

Which forms on the ceiling of caves as water drips through cracks?

a)

Schalictics

b)

Bats

c)

Stalacties

d)

Stlactaies

e)

None of these

7.

Which type of soil or rock allows water to pass through it?

a)

Volcanoes

b)

Pourmeabowl

c)

Subrock

d)

Surface area

e)

Permeable

8.

A soil conservation method that shortens the steep slope into a series of shorter,level steps.

a)

Terracing

b)

No-Till Farming

c)

Crop rotation

d)

Down the stairs

e)

All of these

9.

How is surface area related to chemical weathering?

a)

Allows for less chemical weathering

b)

Allows for rain

c)

Allows for more weathering

d)

Doesn't help at all

e)

None of these

10.

Soil is a mixture of......(Pick 3)

a)

Sand

b)

Weathered rock and mineral fragments

c)

Water

d)

Clay

e)

Decayed organic matter and oxygen

11.

How do farmers manage crops to reduce soil erosion?(Pick 3)

a)

They plant shelter belts

b)

Practice no till farming

c)

Use lawnmowers

d)

Never milk their cows.

e)

Use animals to graze over vegetation.

12.

What are the 3 essential benefits of soil? (Pick 3)

a)

Stores Water

b)

You can play with it

c)

Nutrients for plants

d)

Provides homes for animals.

e)

Worms like it

13.

It is important to preserve topsoil because......

a)

It is the most important layer

b)

Its big

c)

The nutrients helps the plants grow

d)

It holds water

e)

None of these

14.

List the sediment size from largest to smallest:

a)

Loam,Clay,Sand,Silt

b)

Clay,Sand,Silt

c)

Soil,Humus,Bedrock,Subsoil

d)

Sand,Silt,Clay

e)

All of these

15.

What is erosion?

a)

A process that drops sediment

b)

A process that keeps the sediment the same

c)

A process that moves sediment

d)

A process that breaks down sediment

e)

A process that chemically changes the sediment

16.

How does abrasion occur?

a)

Wind

b)

Wind-blown sediments strike a surface

c)

Breaks it down

d)

Water gets into rocks cracks and freezes them, causing the rock the expand.

e)

Deltas form

17.

What was the major environmental disaster during The Great Depression?

a)

Gust Gowl

b)

World War 2

c)

All of these

d)

Dust Bowl

e)

Cereal Bowl

18.

Lichens erode rocks by producing:

a)

Acid Rain

b)

Smog

c)

Glaciers

d)

Acids

e)

Orange Fanta

19.

Rust Is produced by the combination of:

a)

Iron Ore and Gold

b)

Nothing

c)

Rust

d)

Iron,Oxygen,and Water.

e)

Jewls

20.

After thousands of years, the softer outer parts of the Devi;ls Tower have eroded away, leaving the harder more resistant igneous volcanic neck. This is an example of:

a)

Differential Weathering

b)

Erosion

c)

Chemical Weathering

d)

Deposition

e)

The devil

21.

An example of mass wasting is a........(Pick 3)

a)

Rock slide

b)

Land slide

c)

Mud flow

d)

Chocolate milk hill slide

e)

Lahar

22.

Examples of mechanical weathering include: (Pick 2)

a)

Water

b)

Plant rooting

c)

Ice Wedging

d)

Animal Houses

e)

Gravity pulling a rock off a cliff

23.

Examples of chemical weathering are: (Pick 2)

a)

Running water

b)

Acid precipitation wearing away a brick wall

c)

Nothing

d)

Statues cover with holes.

e)

everything

24.

The process that occurs when minerals dissolve and sink into lower soil horizons is called:

a)

Lakes

b)

Loving

c)

Leaching

d)

Leaking

e)

Laughing