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Rivers / Glaciation / Coasts Exam

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 17mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

In a flowing river, the current is fastest

a)

Outside bend

b)

Inside bend

2.

What are flood plains made of?

a)

Soil

b)

Mud

c)

Alluvium

d)

Parmeable rock

3.

What is this?

a)

A beach

b)

Marshland

c)

Headland

d)

Sand Spit

4.

The load of the river is all the materials carried by the water

a)

True

b)

False

5.
Which method of transportation is 'bouncing' medium sized particles along the river bed?
a)
Traction
b)
Saltation
c)
Suspension
d)
Solution
6.

Name where the river starts

a)

source

b)

trubutary

c)

mouth

d)

delta

7.
Where would you find a waterfall?
a)
Upper course
b)
Middle Course
c)
Lower Course
8.
What landform can you see in the picture?
a)
Floodplain
b)
Delta
c)
Waterfall
d)
Oxbow lake
9.
I happen when the waves don't have enough energy to carry sediment
a)
Deposition
b)
Erosion
c)
Swash
d)
Backwash
10.
The type of erosion that occurs when pebbles bang together
a)
Abrasion
b)
Attrition
c)
Hydraulic action
d)
Solution
11.

Headlands and bays are created because of...

a)

layers of different rock types

b)

it's always been like that

c)

tides

d)

destructive waves

12.
What is this landform?
a)
Arch
b)
Cave
c)
Headland
d)
Wave-cut Platform
13.
What are the two main types of glacial erosion?
a)
Abrasion and plucking
b)
Plucking and freeze-thaw
c)
Chemical and biological
d)
Abrasion and hydraulic action
14.

Which letter represents the shape of valleys created by glaciers?

a)

V

b)

U

c)

W

d)

L

15.

Glaciation: The rock fragments that are plucked and abraded by the ice are carried along with it. This material is called

a)

Soil

b)

Cirque

c)

Moraine

d)

Regolith

16.

Glaciation: The is a large hollow that is found high up in a mountain.

a)

Piedmont

b)

Cirque

c)

Arete

d)

Pyrmaidal Peak

17.
There are four main types of erosion for rivers. Which answer is correct.
a)
Hydraulic Action, Attrition, Rubbing, Silting
b)
Hydraulic Action, Abrasion, Deposition, Solution
c)
Hydraulic Action, Abrasion, Silting, Solution
d)
Hydraulic Action, Solution, Abrasion, Attrition
18.

Waves dropping sand on the beach is an example of what?

a)

Weathering

b)

Erosion

c)

Deposition

d)

Compaction

19.

What are warmer periods of time that are not ice ages known as?

a)

Glacial

b)

Intergalactic

c)

Interglacial

d)

Hot

20.

What is plucking?

a)

When a glacier scours the valley floor.

b)

When the snout of the glacier pushes deposited sediment.

c)

When rocks become frozen into glacier and are plucked out when the glacier moves.

d)

When frozen water expands and forces cracks in rocks to get bigger and break apart.

21.

Which of these is created by deposition?

a)

cave

b)

Sea stack

c)

bay

d)

beach

22.

Identify the landform type.

a)

Sea Stack

b)

Sea Stump

c)

Arch

d)

Bay

23.

Bays are created by:

a)

Deposition

b)

Erosion

c)

Weathering

d)

Transportation

24.

The river is at its slowest

a)

Lower Course

b)

Middle Course

c)

Upper Course

25.

A long narrow lake that occupies the floor of a glaciated valley

a)

Oxbow Lake

b)

Ribbon lake

c)

Esker

d)

Organic lake