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WorksheetsRivers / Glaciation / Coasts Exam
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 17mins
In a flowing river, the current is fastest
Outside bend
Inside bend
What are flood plains made of?
Soil
Mud
Alluvium
Parmeable rock
What is this?
A beach
Marshland
Headland
Sand Spit
The load of the river is all the materials carried by the water
True
False
Name where the river starts
source
trubutary
mouth
delta
Headlands and bays are created because of...
layers of different rock types
it's always been like that
tides
destructive waves
Which letter represents the shape of valleys created by glaciers?
V
U
W
L
Glaciation: The rock fragments that are plucked and abraded by the ice are carried along with it. This material is called
Soil
Cirque
Moraine
Regolith
Glaciation: The is a large hollow that is found high up in a mountain.
Piedmont
Cirque
Arete
Pyrmaidal Peak
Waves dropping sand on the beach is an example of what?
Weathering
Erosion
Deposition
Compaction
What are warmer periods of time that are not ice ages known as?
Glacial
Intergalactic
Interglacial
Hot
What is plucking?
When a glacier scours the valley floor.
When the snout of the glacier pushes deposited sediment.
When rocks become frozen into glacier and are plucked out when the glacier moves.
When frozen water expands and forces cracks in rocks to get bigger and break apart.
Which of these is created by deposition?
cave
Sea stack
bay
beach
Identify the landform type.
Sea Stack
Sea Stump
Arch
Bay
Bays are created by:
Deposition
Erosion
Weathering
Transportation
The river is at its slowest
Lower Course
Middle Course
Upper Course
A long narrow lake that occupies the floor of a glaciated valley
Oxbow Lake
Ribbon lake
Esker
Organic lake
