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Which Earth process is being modeled in this experiment?

a) physical weathering in the hydrosphere

b) physical weathering in the mesosphere

c) chemical weathering in the hydrosphere

d) chemical weathering in the mesosphere

Which property of the gneiss sample prevented it from weathering?

a) crystalline texture

b) mineral composition

c) density

d) cleavage

Approximately what percentage of the marble sample remained after the experiment?

a) 0.4%

b) 8.0%

c) 20.7%

d) 99.6%

Which agent of erosion is most likely responsible for the deposition of sandbars along ocean shorelines?

a) glaciers

b) mass movement

c) wave action

d) wind action

In which sample did the quartz grains undergo the most abrasion during erosional transport?

a) A

b) B

c) C

d) D

At high elevations, which is the most common form of physical weathering?

a) abrasion of rocks by the wind

b) alternate freezing and melting of water

c) dissolving of minerals into solution

d) oxidation by oxygen in the atmosphere

Which agent of erosion is most likely responsible for the collapse of the granite profile?

a) running water

b) glacial ice

c) wave action

d) mass movement

Impact craters are more obvious on the Moon and Mercury than on Earth because

a) meteorites have not struck Earth

b) weathering processes on Earth have removed most craters

c) Earth is younger than Mercury or the Moon

d) all meteorites burn up in Earth's atmosphere

Which type of climate has the greatest amount of rock weathering caused by frost action?

a) a wet climate in which temperatures remain below freezing

b) a wet climate in which temperatures alternate from below freezing to above freezing

c) a dry climate in which temperatures remain below freezing

d) a dry climate in which temperatures alternate from below freezing to above freezing

Adding automobile exhaust gases to the atmosphere has had the greatest impact on landscape development by

a) changing the position of crustal plates

b) changing Earth’s prevailing wind patterns

c) increasing the rate of chemical weathering

d) increasing the amount of ozone in ground water

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