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Which of the following is not a way humans control flooding?
a) Flood control dams
b) Artificial levees
c) Cutting off a meander
d) Floodplain development
What is a flood?
a) When the amount of water in a stream becomes so big that it merges with another river to create one big river
b) When a drainage basin gets to full and continues to fill
c) When water has become so dry that a river disappears
d) When the discharge of a stream becomes so great that it exceeds the capacity of its channel and overflows its banks
Where does groundwater happen?
a) in the sky
b) in the ocean
c) underground
d) downslope into water
Where does condensation happen
a) in the sky
b) in the ocean
c) underground
d) downslope into water
Where does most evaporation happen?
a) within the sky
b) downslope into water
c) underground
d) from bodies of water
Where does precipitation happen?
a) out of the clouds
b) in the ocean
c) downslope into water
d) underground
How does water get transferred?
a) Radiation from the sun
b) Climate change
c) Water cycle
d) Uphill along a river
Where does runoff happen in the water cycle?
a) in the ocean
b) in the sky
c) downslope into water
d) underground
What shaped most of Minnesota’s landscape?
a) Volcanoes
b) Earthquakes
c) Glaciers
d) Weather
Where are the major water reservoirs on earth?
a) Underground
b) Oceans
c) Atmosphere
d) Bathtub
What is erosion?
a) Farming and the removal of trees and other vegetation
b) The weathering and removal of rock
c) Transfer of rock and soil downslope due to gravity
d) The breaking down or transformation of rock
What is weathering?
a) Farming and the removal of trees and other vegetation
b) Global warming/climate change
c) The transfer of rock and soil downslope due to gravity
d) The breaking down or transformation or rock
Which of the following are some ways landforms form?
a) Crustal deformation and volcanic eruptions
b) Earth’s motions around the sun
c) Tides
d) Global warming/climate change
Which of the following is NOT a way landforms can corm?
a) Earth’s motions around the sun
b) Weathering
c) Erosion
d) Deposition of sediment
Why does earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and mountain building happen?
a) They all result from plate tectonics
b) Earth’s motions around the sun
c) Global warming/climate change
d) Radiation from the sun
How does an ocean trench form?
a) Two plates sliding past each other
b) Thor’s mighty hammer
c) From one plate being subducted under another
d) Two plates separating
How does a mountain range form?
a) Transform boundary
b) Convergent boundary where two continental plates collide
c) Convergent boundary where oceanic and continental plates collide
d) Divergent boundary
Which of the following form from a divergent boundary?
a) Volcano
b) Mid-ocean ridge
c) Mountain range
d) Ocean trench
Which of the following is NOT how streams erode their channels?
a) Abrasion
b) subduction
c) Grinding
d) Dissolving soluble material
What are environmental problems associated with groundwater?
a) springs and geysers
b) Caves and wells
c) Sinkholes and erosion
d) Overuse and contamination
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