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APES 2019-20 CED Unit 4 Earth Systems and Resources Review
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1
What term is used for this diagram?
Soil Texture Diagram
Soil Horizon
Soil Layer Diagram
Soil Profile
2
Which soil particle has the greatest impact on a soil's water holding capacity?
Silt
Loam
Clay
Sand
3
Which of these is not associated with divergent plate boundaries?
Rift Valleys
Earthquakes
Seafloor Spreading
Subduction Zones
4
What is the greatest agent of weathering and erosion?
Wind
Gravity
Water
5
Soil formation is strictly a top-down process.
True
False
6
El Niño and La Niña occur at regular intervals.
False
True
7
All watersheds are the same.
True
False
8
During an earthquake, energy radiates out from the center known as the
epicenter.
focus.
fault.
9
Which soil horizon contains the greatest amount of organic matter?
B
A
R
C
10
Which has the greatest impact on soil formation?
Organisms
Parent Material
Climate
Slope
11
What happens to the pressure as altitude increases?
It increases
It decreases, then increases, then decreases, then increases
It stays the same
It decreases
12
In which layer of the atmosphere is the ozone layer located?
Troposphere
Thermosphere
Mesosphere
Stratosphere
13
What defines a watershed?
Its composition
Arbitrary lines created by humans
Its length
The divides
14
The rain shadow effect is caused by
mountains.
rivers.
valleys.
oceans.
15
Soil particle size affects
permeability.
all of these
porosity.
soil fertility.
16
Large bodies of water create more stable temperatures in nearby land areas.
True
False
17
El Niño impacts which of the following?
Pacific fisheries
Weather in the Americas
Weather in Southeast Asia
All of these
18
What type of plate boundary is this?
Convergent
Transform Fault
Divergent
19
Earth is closest to the sun in January.
False
True
20
Which type of soil is best for agriculture?
Clay
Silt
Loam
Sand
21
Which of these is not an example of intraplate volcanism?
Mt. St. Helens
Yellowstone National Park
The Hawaiian Islands
22
What causes the Coriolis Effect?
Earth's revolution
Earth's precession
Earth's tilted axis
Earth's rotation
23
Winds are named by where they originate.
True
False
24
Which layer of the atmosphere do we live in?
Troposphere
Stratosphere
Mesosphere
Thermosphere
25
What causes Earth's seasons?
Its rotation
Its revolution
Its tilted axis
Its precession
