Unit Test Review

Question 1

What is formed when glaciers make a depression in the earth, gets stuck, and melts?

Accepted Answer

Kettle Lake

Question 2

Mounds of wind deposited sand are called?

Accepted Answer

dunes

Question 3

Sharp, pyramid-shaped peaks that form when several aretes join at the top of a mountain.

Accepted Answer

horns

Question 4

What is the composition of Earth's atmosphere?

Accepted Answer

78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, and 1% other gases

Question 5

Which is an example of abrasion?

Accepted Answer

shape change due to wind exposure

Question 6

a hole formed when waves erode a crack in a sea cliff

Accepted Answer

sea cave

Question 7

The name given to the extremely slow movement of material downslope.

Accepted Answer

creep

Question 8

Which of the following actions causes the deposition of sand at a delta?

Accepted Answer

river water slowing as it enters the ocean

Question 9

A type of glacier that forms landforms such as cirques, aretes, and horns.

Accepted Answer

Alpine

Question 10

Which of the following is the source of humus found in soil?

Accepted Answer

plants and animals

Question 11

A bowl-shaped depression found on a mountain is called?

Accepted Answer

cirque

Question 12

The settling of sediments after or during erosion

Accepted Answer

deposition

Question 13

Rivers, lakes, oceans, and rain are all parts of which sphere?

Accepted Answer

Hydrosphere

Question 14

Tiny grains of broken down rock

Accepted Answer

Sediment

Question 15

fan-shaped sediment, deposited by a river that does NOT go into an ocean or lake

Accepted Answer

Alluvial Fan

Question 16

The space between soil particles

Accepted Answer

pore space

Question 17

A crescent-shaped lake that is formed by a cut off river meander.

Accepted Answer

Oxbow Lake

Question 18

How well plants can grow depends on the soil's this...

Accepted Answer

fertility

Question 19

The landscape that forms after deflation. Only large rocks are left behind.

Accepted Answer

desert pavement

Question 20

What are the spheres of the Earth?

Accepted Answer

cryo, bio, hydro, geo, atmo

Question 21

The amount of solid matter carried by a stream is called?

Accepted Answer

particle load

Question 22

What are the layers of the geosphere from the Earth's center moving outward?

Accepted Answer

core, mantle, crust

Question 23

Rock that forms in the "D Horizon" or under the C Horizon that makes dirt and soil possible.

Accepted Answer

Parent Rock

Question 24

What can cause granite to break down into soil over time?

Accepted Answer

rain and wind

Question 25

Column of rock that forms when a sea arch collapses

Accepted Answer

sea stack

Question 26

Rapid mass movement where rocks fall down a gradient.

Accepted Answer

rockfall

Question 27

The general term for all materials carried and deposited by a glacier.

Accepted Answer

glacial drift

Question 28

Iron + Oxygen = Rust

Accepted Answer

Oxidation

Question 29

Canyons form due to erosion by water. Which landform is formed by erosion by groundwater?

Accepted Answer

an underground cavern

Question 30

What force is mainly responsible for erosion and deposition at a landslide or rockfall?

Accepted Answer

gravity

Question 31

underwater, or exposed ridge of sand. Formed when ocean waves pick up sand and move it.

Accepted Answer

sandbar

Question 32

What would happen to a tray of dirt and stream of water if the slope of the tray was increased?

Accepted Answer

the speed of water and amount of erosion will increase

Question 33

Weathering that changes both the appearance and composition of rocks

Accepted Answer

Chemical

Question 34

The removal of fine sediment by wind.

Accepted Answer

deflation

Question 35

Granite has only recently been exposed at Earth's surface, how will this effect the soil?

Accepted Answer

soil will contain the same minerals that granite has

Question 36

Powdery, thick deposits of fine-grained sediment is called?

Accepted Answer

loess

Question 37

When wind erodes sediment, it will slow down and deposit some, which gets deposited first?

Accepted Answer

the heaviest

Question 38

Projection formed when hard rock erodes more slowly than soft rock

Accepted Answer

headland

Question 39

Rocks, mountains, soil, and the mantle are all parts of which sphere?

Accepted Answer

Geosphere

Question 40

What are thick sheets of ice that can spread across entire continents called?

Accepted Answer

continental glaciers

Question 41

The more common name for the A Horizon

Accepted Answer

topsoil

Question 42

The slope of a stream

Accepted Answer

Gradient

Question 43

The force behind erosion, how hard the water hits an object

Accepted Answer

Erosive Power

Question 44

The 4 agents of erosion and deposition are...

Accepted Answer

ice, gravity, water, wind

Question 45

A long, narrow island, made of sand, that forms parallel to the shore a short distance offshore

Accepted Answer

barrier island

Unit Test Review

Questions 45

Unit Test Review

Questions 45