Soil, Rocks And Landforms

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Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.

1) Physical and Chemical Weathering are both processes that ______________.

2) When water fills cracks in rocks and freezes it causes rocks to break apart because water ____________________ when it freezes.

3) Abrasion causes rocks to break into smaller pieces because of _____________________.

4) Pieces of rock move down a mountain because of the melting snow, this causes ____________.

5) A crack in a rock fills with water and freezes causing _______________.

6) Calcite in limestone reacts with acid rain which causes ___________.

7) Sand carried by wind settles and creates dunes in a valley, this is caused by _____________.

8) Most landforms take a long time to change. Which answer describes how a landform can change rapidly?

9) What resource is NONRENEWABLE?

10) Which resource is RENEWABLE?

11) Many materials should be considered part of soil including humus. Which 2 would NOT be considered part of soil?

12) What evidence helps you know a rock has been shaped by the process of abrasion over a long period of time?

13) How are physical and chemical weathering similar?

14) How are physical and chemical weathering different?

15) A student had a piece of Limestone. He put it in a weak acid (vinegar). After letting it sit overnight, he poured the liquid into an evaporation dish. What do you think he saw after all the liquid evaporated?

16) What is most likely to make a rock break into pieces?

17) Which is NOT a property that describes how soil might be different.

18) A river pours into the ocean. Earth materials are deposited over a wide area. Which landform is likely to form?

19) Which factor causes particles of earth material to settle sooner when they are traveling down a river?

20) Which sentence does NOT describe erosion?


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