5th-6th Grade Ch. 2 Review: Weathering And Erosion, Part 1 Question Preview (ID: 39141)


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What is the process of wind picking up loose sediment and carrying it away?
a) deflation
b) moraine
c) load
d) deposition

What is the sediment that a stream carries called?
a) deflation
b) moraine
c) load
d) depositon

What is the dropping of sediment and rock in a new location called?
a) deflation
b) moraine
c) deposition
d) delta

What is an area of sediment deposited at the mount of a river?
a) morain
b) load
c) deposition
d) delta

What is a pile of rocks and soil deposited by a glacier?
a) moraine
b) load
c) deposition
d) delta

What are layers of soil called?
a) humus
b) horizons
c) texture
d) sand

What is the largest kind of particle in soil?
a) clay
b) silt
c) dirt
d) sand

What are the smallest particles of weathered rocks and minerals called?
a) humus
b) horizons
c) sand
d) sediment

What is decayed organic material found in soil?
a) humus
b) sand
c) horizons
d) sediment

What is the amount of each kind of particle in a soil sample called?
a) sediment
b) horizons
c) texture
d) sand

The process of breaking down rocks is called ____.
a) exfoliation
b) weathering
c) erosion
d) frost wedging

A ____ forms when unmelted snow gets compacted down into ice.
a) load
b) delta
c) morain
d) glacier

A fertile soil that has equal parts of sand and silt combined with about half as much clay is called ___.
a) loam
b) humus
c) subsoil
d) horizons

Unweathered rock that influences the soil around it is called _____.
a) loam
b) topsoil
c) bedrock
d) subsoil

___ changes rock into new substances.
a) Mechanical weathering
b) Chemical weathering
c) Exfoliation
d) Frost action

If a bronze statue with marble base starts to dissolve and discolor, what could be a likely cause of this?
a) a mudslide
b) acid rain
c) mechanical weathering
d) soil creeping

What causes depositions to have a layered look?
a) The sediment settling according to its weight.
b) The sediment settling according to its color.
c) The sediment settling according to its size.
d) The sediment settling according to its favorite animal.

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