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Rivers, Coasts, and Glaciation

Total questions: 21

Worksheet time: 17mins

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Class
Date
1.

What type of weathering is it when water fills the cracks in a rock?

a)

Freeze-thaw

b)

Onion skin

c)

Chemical

d)

Biological

2.

Which of these is weathering?

a)

Wind picking up rocks

b)

Seeds falling in a rock

c)

The steep sides in a v-shaped valley

d)

Acid rain

3.

What type of weathering is most likely to happen here?

a)

Chemical

b)

Onion skin

c)

Freeze-thaw

d)

Biological

4.

Ordinary ____ contains small amounts of ____. When it _____ ___ ___ with ___, the ____ ____ it. (seperate each blank/set of blanks with a comma)

(a)  

5.

Pick the correct order

a)

Transportation, weathering, deposition, erosion

b)

weathering, erosion, transportation, deposition

c)

Erosion, transportaion, depositon, weathering

d)

stream "walls" by louis tomlinson

6.

What are the steps of a v-shaped valley?

a)

Weathering, eroding down, slope transport, v-shaped valley

b)

slope transport, weathering, eroding down, v-shaped valley

c)

Eroding down, weathering, slope transport, v-shaped valley

d)

weathering, slope transport, eroding down, v-shaped valley.

7.

A gorge is...

(a)  

8.

How do river bends develop?

a)

Rivers bends develop because of the water's eroding powers.

b)

Rivers bends develop because we interfer with them.

c)

Rivers bends develop because of erosion

d)

Rivers bends develop because of weathering

9.

Current is fastest

a)

Outside bend

b)

Inside bend

10.

What makes river cliffs?

a)

Erosion

b)

Weathering

c)

River bends

d)

Material build up

11.

WHat are flood plains made of?

a)

Soil

b)

Mud

c)

Alluvium

d)

Parmeable rock

12.

River bends are...

a)

Sometimes straight

b)

Never straight

c)

Rarely straight

d)

Always straight

13.

Why is there material beside a stack?

a)

It's material that has been deposited

b)

Build up of materials from cracks

c)

Material from another collapsed stack

d)

It's material from a collapsed arch

14.

What is this?

a)

Headland

b)

Spit

c)

Bay

d)

Beach

15.

What is this?

a)

A beach

b)

Marshland

c)

Headland

d)

Spit

16.

Give one advantage of groynes and one disadvantage.

4 lines
17.

Give one advantage and one disadvantage of beach rebuilding.

4 lines
18.

Pick the correct meanings of plucking and abrasion.

a)

PLUCKING: ice pulling away rock

b)

ABRASION: rock being pulled away by rubbing and scraping

c)

PLUCKING: rock being pulled away by rubbing and scraping

d)

ABRASION: ice pulling away rock

19.

Where is a rock lip formed?

a)

Where there is less deposition

b)

Where there is less erosion

c)

Where there is less weathering

d)

Where there is more weathering

20.

Choose the correct order.

a)

V-shaped valley, u-shaped valley, glacier

b)

V-shaped valley, glacier, U-shaped valley

c)

Glacier, V-shaped valley, U-shaped valley

d)

U-shaped valley, glacier, v-shaped valley

21.

hanging valleys...

a)

are smaller valleys that have been eroded less than the main valley.

b)

are acuter valleys that have been eroded more than the main valley.

c)

are smaller valleys that have been eroded more than the main valley.

d)

are valleys that are filled with moraine.