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WorksheetsEnd of Month Test
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 14mins
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Class
Date
1.
The process of breaking up Earth's surface into soil and sediment over a long period of time is called...
a)
sediment
b)
erosion
c)
weathering
d)
deposition
2.
What type of weathering is it when acid rain breaks down and changes the rock.
a)
chemical weathering
b)
physical or mechanical weathering
c)
erosion
d)
Deposition
3.
How do plants weather rocks?
a)
during photosynthesis
b)
when roots grow into cracks of rocks and expand the rock
c)
when the plant moves water from the roots to the leaves
4.
thermal fractionation, frost wedging, hydration shattering, exfoliation and abrasion. are forms of what?
a)
Mechanical Weathering
b)
Erosion
c)
Chemical Weathering
d)
Compaction
5.
Dissolution, hydrolysis, Hydration, and Oxidation and Acid Rain are examples of what kind of weathering?
a)
Mechanical Weathering
b)
Abrasion
c)
Chemical Weathering
d)
Bill Nye the science guy
6.
The process of breaking up rocks caused by CHEMICAL changes that DOES change the actual substance of the rock.
a)
erosion
b)
Acid Rain
c)
Chemical Weathering
d)
Rocks
7.
A process that breaks up rocks using PHYSICAL changes that don't change the actual substance.
a)
Chemical Weathering
b)
Animals
c)
Plants
d)
Mechanical Weathering
8.
What human activities can increase the rate of weathering?
a)
Increasing the amount of acid rain
b)
Paving over large portions of land
c)
All of the other answers.
d)
Strip mining and agriculture
9.
Which type of climate would cause the greatest rate of weathering?
a)
Cold and dry
b)
Cold and humid (wet)
c)
Warm and humid (wet)
d)
Warm and dry
10.
Which of the following is the most important agent of chemical weathering to form this cave?
a)
Water - It can carry acid and dissolve rock
b)
Erosion - Moves the rocks from one place to another
c)
Wind - It displaces rocks
d)
Exfoliation - New cracks give chemical reactions the chance to operate
11.
An example of physical weathering is -
a)
Plant roots and leaves releasing acids
b)
Carbonic acid dissolving limestone
c)
Large temperature changes
d)
Lichens growing on rocks
12.
Over millions of years, weak carbonic acid can dissolve limestone to form -
a)
Cracks in rocks
b)
Caves and caverns
c)
Mountains and cliffs
13.
Carbonic acid is formed in nature when -
a)
Water dissolves particles of soil to form mud
b)
The oxygen molecules in water bond with minerals in rocks
c)
Water bonds with carbon dioxide in the air and/or soil
14.
The process by which natural forces move weathered rock & soil from one place to another
a)
Weathering
b)
Erosion
c)
deposition
d)
wind only
15.
_____________happens where agents of erosion drop or lay down sediment.
a)
Weathering only
b)
erosion only
c)
Deposition
d)
compaction only
16.
_________________happens when gravity moves sediment downhill.
a)
Weathering only
b)
Mass movement
c)
Erosion only
d)
Gravity
17.
Which is NOT a type of mass movement?
a)
landslide
b)
slump
c)
mudflow
d)
windstorm
18.
This is a picture of a
a)
slump
b)
creep
c)
mudflow
d)
landslide
19.
Rock & soil slides quickly down steep slope in a ______________________.
a)
slump
b)
windstorm
c)
landslide
d)
mudlfow
20.
This is a picture of
a)
slumps
b)
creeps
c)
mudflows
d)
landslides
21.
The force that moves objects downhill is ...
a)
mass movement
b)
gravity
c)
slump
d)
deposition
22.
Which type of mass movement happens very slowly?
a)
slump
b)
creep
c)
landslide
d)
mudslide
23.
The process by which natural forces move weathered rock & soil from one place to another
a)
Weathering
b)
Erosion
c)
deposition
d)
wind only
24.
Water mixes with ________________ in Limestone and forms a weak _________________
a)
Oxegen
b)
Carbon Dioxide
c)
Carbonic acid
d)
Iron Oxide
25.
What does erosion move?
a)
sediments
b)
water only
c)
only organic matter
d)
only inorganic matter
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