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Landscapes, Weathering, Erosion
Landscapes, Weathering, Erosion
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Landscape, weathering, erosion review
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What is the name of the particle size that would be location at location X in the diagram?
Sand
Clay
Pebbles
Silt
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What is an escarpment?
Turn in the Stream
A Type of Weathering
A Hill
A Cliff
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What landscape feature shows you the farthest point that the glacier traveled?
Moraine
Kettle Lake
Drumline
Kettle Hole
4
What type of landscape is demonstrated by the picture below?
Plateau
Mountain
Plain
5
What two agents of erosion sort sediments?
Water and Glaciers
Glaciers and Wind
Wind and Gravity
Water and Wind
6
The image below is the result of what type of chemical weathering?
Carbonation
Hydration
Oxidation
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What type of weathering results in desert sands?
Root Pry
Heating and Cooling
Wetting and Drying
Freezing and Thawing
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In what landscape region is Mt. Marcy located?
Erie Ontario Lowlands
Adirondack Mountains
The Catskills
Allegheny Plateau
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The turns or bends in a stream are known as...
Meander
Exfoliation
Pebbles
Watershed
10
Looking at the images below, which one would be classified as a plateau landscape?
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What type of rock is the Erie-Ontario Lowlands dominantly made of?
Sedimentary
Metamorphic
Igneous
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What agent of erosion will create U-shaped valleys?
Water
Wind
Gravity
Glaciers
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What type of landscape feature shows the direction that a glacier was moving in?
U-shaped Valleys
drumlin
Kettle Lake
moraine
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Which type of weathering results in potholes?
Wetting and Drying
Heating and Cooling
Freezing and Thawing
Exfoliation
15
What agent of erosion would produce the scratched depicted below?
wind
water
gravity
glaciers
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What agent of erosion would produce the pitting depicted below?
gravity
glaciers
water
wind
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Which type of landscape is demonstrated by the picture below?
Plain
Mountain
Plateau
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New York State's generalized landscape regions are identified primarily on the basis of ...
geologic age and absolute age
climate zones and radioactive dating
latitude and climate
elevation and bedrock structure