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ELL/ B Destructive Constructive Test 2021

Total questions: 23

Worksheet time: 12mins

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Class
Date
1.

Which of the processes are Constructive ONLY?

Check 2 answers.

a)

Erosion

b)

Deposition

c)

Weathering

d)

folding, faulting and uplifting

2.

Which of the below are Both Constructive and Destructive?

Check 3 answers.

a)

glaciers

b)

landslides

c)

volcanoes

d)

tsunamis

3.

Which of the options below are destructive processes ONLY?

a)

floods and glaciers

b)

weathering and erosion

c)

earthquakes and deposition

4.

What do we call the process that carries away sediments?

a)

weathering

b)

erosion

c)

deposition

5.

What do we call the process that adds sediments someplace new?

a)

weathering

b)

erosion

c)

deposition

6.

What do we call the process that breaks down, weakens, cracks the rock?

a)

weathering

b)

erosion

c)

deposition

7.

Which statements below would be examples of erosion?

check 2 answers

a)

rain washes away the soil

b)

stones crack

c)

shells carried away by the ocean

d)

rock breaks into smaller pieces

8.

Forces that tear down the land are called

a)

constructive forces

b)

destructive forces

c)

Both constructive and destructive

9.

Forces that add to the land and build it up are called....

a)

destructive

b)

constructive

c)

both constructive and destructive

10.

Sand is added to a beach. An esker is formed at the bottom of a mountain. Sediments are placed in a delta at the end of a river. These are all examples of

a)

weathering/destructive forces

b)

erosion /destructive forces

c)

deposition /constructive forces

11.

U shaped valleys, cirques and horns are located at the top of a mountain where a glacier has been. These land features were created through which processes?

a)

weathering and deposition

b)

erosion and deposition

c)

weathering and erosion

12.

A moraine is formed when sediment is dropped by a glacier. This process is called ______________ and is a ___________________ force.

a)

deposition and destructive

b)

erosion and destructive

c)

deposition and constructive

13.

The top of the hill on this landslide where sediment is broken away from the hill would be considered a ____________process

a)

constructive

b)

destructive

14.

Which two processes make a sea cave

a)

weathering and erosion

b)

erosion and deposition

c)

weathering and deposition

15.

What is the main agent that created the sea cave

a)

wind

b)

water

c)

ice

16.

What is the main agent that created eskers, cirques, U shaped valleys, moraines and horns?

a)

wind

b)

water

c)

ice

17.

What is the main agent that created a sand dune

a)

wind

b)

water

c)

gravity

18.

Check which processes below are slow destructive forces.

There are 2 answers check both answers

a)

earthquakes

b)

tsunamis

c)

weathering

d)

erosion

19.

This is a mushroom rock in the desert. check the 2 true statements below.

a)

deposition created it

b)

weathering and erosion created it

c)

the main agent is wind

20.

why is the bottom part of the rock smaller than the top?

a)

The sand could only reached a certain height when picked up by the wind

b)

The water only reached a certain height and wore away the bottom

c)

The ice only froze and cracked the bottom part of the rock

21.

Place these land features: sea arch, sea stack and sea cave, in order of how they were formed. In other words, which one comes first, second and then third in formation.

a)

sea cave, sea arch, sea stack

b)

sea arch, sea cave, sea stack

c)

sea stack, sea arch, sea cave

22.

This is a(n) ______________ at the mouth of a river. The process of ______________ forms it

a)

esker, weathering

b)

delta, erosion

c)

delta, deposition

23.

Deposition is a __________________ process

a)

quick and constructive

b)

slow and constructive

c)

quick and destructive