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Formation of Mountain, Weathering, Erosion & Deposition

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What mystery is found 8,000 ft. high in the Colorado Rockies, 60 mi. west of Boulder?

a)

Fine Acoustics

b)

Natural Birdbaths

c)

Fossils of Marine Animals

d)

A Family of Yetis!

2.

What existed for over 30 million years, and stretched from the Gulf of Mexico to the Arctic Sea?

a)

A Vast Inland Sea

b)

The Ancestral Rockies

c)

A Sterile Promontory

d)

Massive Pods of Ichthyosaur

3.

What holds a key to when the Rockies first emerged, about 70 million years ago?

a)

Large fern imprint fossils

b)

Granite bedrock

c)

Bubbles of Helium

d)

Date of the ammonite's extinction

4.

For the last 3 million years, ____ have come and gone from the Rocky Mountains.

a)

upheavals

b)

rivers

c)

glaciers

d)

Yetis

5.

Ice turns V-shaped river valleys into what?

a)

slick conduits

b)

broad, U-shaped canyons

c)

rolling plains

d)

large sea inlets

6.

What is the result of "Weathering?"

a)

The breaking down and changing of rocks as a result of exposure to the environment.

b)

The breaking down of fossils as a result of massive excavations.

c)

The breaking down of rocks as a result of exposure to the Rock!

d)

The breaking down and changing of rocks as a result of exposure to mystical forces.

7.

Erosion is all about:

a)

weathering and deposition

b)

movement and respiration 

c)

groovy transportation

d)

movement and transportation

8.

Match the following images with the correct response:

a)

1.

Erosion

b)

2.

Deposition

c)

3.

Weathering

9.

Match the following images with the correct type of "Physical Weathering:"

a)

1.

Frost Action

b)

2.

Exfoliation

c)

3.

Abrasion

d)

4.

Root Wedging

10.

Which type of weathering can change the composition of the rocks?

a)

Physical

b)

Mechanical

c)

Root Wedge

d)

Chemical

11.

When ​ (a)   flows over different ​ (b)   , it can form an ​ (c)   that is strong enough to  ​ (d)   rock.

Choose from the below words
water
minerals
acid
dissolve
rock
mud
create