Earth Science Weathering & Friends Quiz

Question 1

Chemical Weathering will increase if...

Accepted Answer

air temperature increases and precipitation increases

Question 2

On which landscape region did this drainage pattern most likely develop?

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3

Question 3

Sediment is deposited in a river delta because the

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velocity of the river decreases

Question 4

Which sandstone layer appears to be the least resistant to weathering?

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B

Question 5

How did urbanization affect delay time between points A and B and the maximum stream discharge?

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Delay time decreased, and the maximum discharge increased.

Question 6

Which process is shown in these diagrams?

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Mass Movement

Question 7

What is the minimum stream velocity needed to keep a 6.4-cm-diameter particle in motion?

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200 cm/sec

Question 8

Which type of weathering was primarily responsible for the development of these caves?

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chemical weathering of limestone

Question 9

Which agent of erosion most likely carried sediment that scratched this bedrock surface?

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Moving Glacier

Question 10

Which agent of erosion most likely formed these barrier islands?

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Wave Action

Question 11

The greatest velocities on this river most likely occur:

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B and C

Question 12

How would porosity and infiltration rate differ in these 3 samples? (Volume of each is equal.)

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Porosity: Equal in all. Infiltration rate: greatest in C.

Question 13

What will be the most probable arrangement of rock particles deposited directly by a glacier?

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unsorted and not layered

Question 14

The least amount of surface water runoff will occur when soil pore spaces are

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unsaturated and the slope is gentle

Question 15

Which list best identifies the agent of erosion that determined the shape of each valley?

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photograph A—glacier; photograph B—river

Question 16

Which processes are most likely to cause a rise in the water table? (Ignore letters in pic.)

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precipitation and infiltration

Question 17

Which rock shows evidence of being transported the farthest distance by a stream?

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4

Question 18

Which diagram best shows the pattern of sediments deposited by a stream entering the ocean?

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3

Question 19

Which event is an example of chemical weathering?

Accepted Answer

acid rain reacting with limestone bedrock

Question 20

New York State landscape regions are identified and classified primarily by their

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surface topography and bedrock structure

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