Erosion And Deposition, Les 3-5 6th Grade Question Preview (ID: 60515)


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Which glacier flows in all directions?
a) continental
b) valley
c)
d)

As waves approach the shore and change direction, on which landform is most of their energy concentrated?
a) headland
b) beaches
c) sandbars
d) sea caves

A glacier begins to move when the snow and ice build to which thickness?
a) 10 to 20 meters
b) 20 to 30 meters
c) 30 to 40 meters
d) 100 to 200 meters

What makes up till?
a) clay only
b) sand only
c) silt and sand only
d) clay, silt, sand, gravel, and boulders

A small depression created by the melting of a chunk of ice in glacial sediment?
a) till
b) moraine
c) kettle
d) spit

A mass of rock and soil deposited directly by a glacier?
a) till
b) drumlin
c) kettle lake
d) U shaped valley

Waves change direction as they near shore because
a) they are powered by the wind
b) different parts of the waves drag on the bottom
c) they get bored of traveling in the same direction
d) fish change the current of the water

Fine, wind-deposited sediment that is dropped far from its source in large deposits
a) sand dune
b) sand bar
c) loess
d) humus

Plant roots can
a) erode a sand dune faster
b) displace the sand in a sand dune as it grows
c) help to anchor a dune in one place
d) not grow in a sand dune.

The process by which wind removes surface material
a) deposition
b) deflation
c) abrasion
d) plucking

Most desert landforms are the result of
a) weathering and water erosion
b) abrasion
c) pluckinig
d) deflation

Which is NOT formed by erosion?
a) sea stack
b) sea cave
c) wave-cut cliff
d) sandbar

An area of wave-washed sediment along a coast
a) beach
b) spit
c) sea stack
d) sandbar

When a glacier retreats and deposits a mound or ridge, it is called a(n)
a) kettle lake
b) U shaped valley
c) drumlin
d) moraine

A sharp ridge separating two cirques is called a(n)
a) arete
b) cirque
c) horn
d) kettle lake

When glaciers slide downhill, the pieces of rocks that are frozen to the bottom scrape the land in a process called
a) plucking
b) abrasion
c) till
d) ice wedging

What constantly pulls glaciers downhill?
a) water
b) wind
c) waves
d) gravity

Which glaciers form high in the mountains?
a) valley glacier
b) continental glacier
c) ice sheets
d)

What happens when wind slows down or meets an obstacle?
a) erosion
b) chemical weathering
c) deposition
d) mechanical weathering

Which size particles does the wind usually skip and bounce for short distances?
a) sand
b) boulders
c) clay and silt
d) clay

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