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WorksheetsRivers, Coasts, and Glaciation
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 17mins
What type of weathering is it when water fills the cracks in a rock?
Freeze-thaw
Onion skin
Chemical
Biological
Which of these is weathering?
Wind picking up rocks
Seeds falling in a rock
The steep sides in a v-shaped valley
Acid rain
What type of weathering is most likely to happen here?
Chemical
Onion skin
Freeze-thaw
Biological
Ordinary ____ contains small amounts of ____. When it _____ ___ ___ with ___, the ____ ____ it. (seperate each blank/set of blanks with a comma)
(a)
Pick the correct order
Transportation, weathering, deposition, erosion
weathering, erosion, transportation, deposition
Erosion, transportaion, depositon, weathering
stream "walls" by louis tomlinson
What are the steps of a v-shaped valley?
Weathering, eroding down, slope transport, v-shaped valley
slope transport, weathering, eroding down, v-shaped valley
Eroding down, weathering, slope transport, v-shaped valley
weathering, slope transport, eroding down, v-shaped valley.
A gorge is...
(a)
How do river bends develop?
Rivers bends develop because of the water's eroding powers.
Rivers bends develop because we interfer with them.
Rivers bends develop because of erosion
Rivers bends develop because of weathering
Current is fastest
Outside bend
Inside bend
What makes river cliffs?
Erosion
Weathering
River bends
Material build up
WHat are flood plains made of?
Soil
Mud
Alluvium
Parmeable rock
River bends are...
Sometimes straight
Never straight
Rarely straight
Always straight
Why is there material beside a stack?
It's material that has been deposited
Build up of materials from cracks
Material from another collapsed stack
It's material from a collapsed arch
What is this?
Headland
Spit
Bay
Beach
What is this?
A beach
Marshland
Headland
Spit
Give one advantage of groynes and one disadvantage.
Give one advantage and one disadvantage of beach rebuilding.
Pick the correct meanings of plucking and abrasion.
PLUCKING: ice pulling away rock
ABRASION: rock being pulled away by rubbing and scraping
PLUCKING: rock being pulled away by rubbing and scraping
ABRASION: ice pulling away rock
Where is a rock lip formed?
Where there is less deposition
Where there is less erosion
Where there is less weathering
Where there is more weathering
Choose the correct order.
V-shaped valley, u-shaped valley, glacier
V-shaped valley, glacier, U-shaped valley
Glacier, V-shaped valley, U-shaped valley
U-shaped valley, glacier, v-shaped valley
hanging valleys...
are smaller valleys that have been eroded less than the main valley.
are acuter valleys that have been eroded more than the main valley.
are smaller valleys that have been eroded more than the main valley.
are valleys that are filled with moraine.
