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WorksheetsScience 5 Review
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 13mins
The breaking down of rocks and other materials on the Earth's surface is known as _____.
Erosion
Decomposition
Deposition
Weathering
What is the process that picks up and transport weathered rocks?
Erosion
Deposition
Landslide
Weathering
Which of the following agents of "weathering" seeps in through cracks on
fissures in the rocks?
Animals
Temperature
Water
Wind
What types of changes occur during the weathering process?
Chemical change
Physical change
Chemical change and Physical change
None of the above
What process happens when rocks break down due to reaction with water,
carbon dioxide, oxygen and organic acids?
Biological Weathering
Chemical Weathering
Electrical Weathering
Mechanical Weathering
Which of the following tends to cause physical or mechanical weathering?
Animal that burrows in the ground .
Root of plants growing into the cracks in the rocks
Water that seeps into the pores and cracks of rocks
All of these
Which of the following occurs when acidic water caused the rocks to break
producing clay and soluble salts?
Carbonation
Erosion
Hydrolysis
Oxidation
The following human activities are causes of physical weathering, EXCEPT:
Mining ores
Quarrying rocks
Boating and fishing
Building roads and tunnels
How does temperature weather rocks?
Rocks are at different temperature.
Rocks are heated greatly all the time.
Rocks are cooled tremendously all the time.
Rocks are heated and cooled continuously.
Plant serves as agents of weathering. Which of the following statements
support this idea?
Falling of leaves causes rocks to break.
Decaying trunks of plants cause the rocks to break.
Roots of plants that grow in rocks cause them to break.
Branches of plants cause the rocks to break when blown by the winds.
A boulder of shore is slowly broken apart by the force of water.
mechanical weathering
chemical weathering
biological weathering
Earthworms make tunnels in the ground which may lead to the breakdown of
stones and rocks.
mechanical weathering
chemical weathering
biological weathering
Some plants release chemicals which loosen the rocks and cause them to break.
mechanical weathering
chemical weathering
biological weathering
Water inside the rocks freezes and melts again.
mechanical weathering
chemical weathering
biological weathering
The chemical composition of rocks changes when acid is produced by the roots of
some plants.
mechanical weathering
chemical weathering
biological weathering
It is the third planet from the sun and the only known astronomical object
to have life on it.
(a)
Physical wearing away of rocks.
(a)
The breaking down of rocks that result in the formation of soil and different
landforms.
(a)
It is a combination of one or more minerals that are naturally formed and
found on the surface or beneath the surface of earth.
(a)
A form of weathering which happens when rocks break down due to reaction
with water, carbon dioxide, oxygen, and organic acids.
(a)
