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WorksheetsTOPICS: Exogenic Processes, Endogenic Processes, Deformation
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
What do you call the process by which the repeated freezing and melting of water within small crevices into the rock’s surface happens?
A. carbonation
B. hydration
C. oxidation
D. ice wedging
When weathering occurs at mountains, large slabs of rocks detach from it. The rocks would move down and this movement is called mass wasting. What causes this downward motion?
Gravitational force of earth
Rotation of the earth of its axis
Revolution of the earth around the sun
Strong winds on the earth surace
When a river picks up small particles of soil, rocks, and other materials and moves them down the river leaving them miles from where they originated. This is known as____.
Deposition
Volcanic eruption
Continental drift
Tsunamis
Which of the following is NOT true about chemical weathering?
Agents of chemical weathering include water, strong acids, and oxygen
Rock materials are changed into other substances with physical and chemical compositions
Agents of chemical weathering include living things such as insects and roots of trees
One example of chemical weathering include feldspar hydrolized by rainwater
How would you explain the role of water in chemical weathering of rocks?
It hydrates and breaks the minerals on the rocks
It washes out the dirt on rocks
It fertilizes the soil
It combines with metals in the minerals of rocks to form oxides
What force is responsible for erosion and deposition in landslides?
Gravity
Wind
Ice
Temoerature
Which of the following can trigger a landslide?
An earthquake
Heavy reainstorm
removal of material from the base of a slope
All of these
The Himalayan mountains have some of the highest peaks like Mt. Everest, on which type of convergent boundary are they located?
oceanic-oceanic
oceanic-continental
continental-continental
None of the above
An example of a mountain range formed through a continent-continent collision is the________.
Andres mountain
Himalayas
Mount St. Helens
Mount Pinatubo
Volcanic eruption and earthquakes occur in the Philippines because it is
volcanic origin
located in the equator
composed of many islands
located in the Pacific Ring of fire
