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Surface Of The Earth Vocabulary
Test Description: Surface of the Earth Vocabulary
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) What is the process by which sediment and other materials are moved from one place to another.
A
Weathering
B
Abrasion
C
Erosion
D
Depostion
2) What is the process by which eroded materials are dropped?
A
Abrasion
B
Weathering
C
Erosion
D
Deposition
3) What is the process of the breaking down of rock into smaller pieces?
A
Abrasion
B
Deposition
C
Weathering
D
Erosion
4) What is the measure of the change in elevation over a certain distance?
A
Discharge
B
Gradient
C
Load
D
Flood
5) The materials carried by a stream is referred to as the streams ______.
A
Contents
B
discharge
C
gradient
D
Load
6) What is the amount of water a stream carries in a given amount of time?
A
Load
B
Gradient
C
Discharge
D
Depostion
7) What is water located within the rocks below Earth's surface?
A
Lake water
B
rock water
C
groundwater
D
contained water
8) A large mass of moving ice that forms by compacting of snow by natural forces is known as a
A
iceberg
B
snow pack
C
snow drift
D
glacier
9) What is the general term for all of the materials carried and deposited by a glacier?
A
Glacial Drift
B
Glacial sediment
C
Glacial Load
D
Glacial rock
10) Thick deposits of sediment are known as ___________.
A
dunes
B
sediment drift
C
loess
D
mud
11) What are mounds of wind deposited sand?
A
glaciers
B
mountains
C
dunes
D
drifts
12) What is the area where streams often deposit their load in a fan shaped pattern; very rich in sediment and nutrients known as?
A
plateau
B
mouth
C
delta
D
plains
13) What is a flat area with many layers of deposited sediment known as?
A
dunes
B
floodplain
C
delta
D
plains
14) What is a fan shaped deposit that forms on dry land?
A
Floodplain
B
Oxbow Lake
C
Alluvial Fan
D
Delta
15) What is the place where land and a body of water meet?
A
cliffside
B
beach
C
delta
D
Shoreline
16) Erosion NOT caused by which of the following?
A
Wind
B
Sun
C
Ice
D
Gravity
17) What is a sudden rapid movement of a large amount material downslope?
A
mudflow
B
cliff fall
C
rockfall
D
landslide
18) What is it called when loose rocks fall down a steep slope?
A
cliff crash
B
Rockfall
C
landlside
D
mudflow
19) What is a rapid movement of a large mass of mud?
A
mudflow
B
rockfall
C
cliff fall
D
landslide
20) What is an area of the crust that caves in due to erosion by groundwater of the bedrock below?
A
Erosion Pit
B
Sinkhole
C
Crater
D
Sea Cave
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