FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT 6 JOSEPH SCI CH 11

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT 6 JOSEPH SCI CH 11

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-Guarantee passing score -95 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation Question 1: What (a mixture of different sized particles ranging from clay to boulders) is deposited directly from the bottom of a glacier.

Answer:

till

Question 2: Rocks take ______ to weather into the soil?

Answer:

time

Question 3: Why does erosion occur?

Answer:

gravity, ice, wind & water

Question 4: What affects the kind of soil that develops?

Answer:

parent rock

Question 5: ______ is a mixture of weathered rock, organic matter, water, and air.

Answer:

soil Question 6: erosion of land that occurs when wind blows across loose sediments and carries them away often leaving behind particles too heavy to move

Answer:

deflation

Question 7: acid formed from water mixing with carbon dioxide

Answer:

chemical Question 8: What is it called when rock layers break loose and slide downhill called?

Answer:

rock slide

Question 9: What is weathering?

Answer:

a mechanical or chemical surface process that breaks rocks into smaller pieces.Question 10: Wind blows small particles from Earth's surface in a process called?

Answer:

deflation

Question 11: Name 2 causes of mechanical weathering?

Answer:

-ice wedging plants & animals Question 12: freezing and thawing cycle that causes potholes in roads and breaks in rocks

Answer:

ice wedging

Question 13: describe how soil forms. what factors are important

Answer:

it forms from weathered rock, organic matter, water and air Question 14: Streams have water flowing through them constantly; they eventually flow into where?

Answer:

ocean or large lake Question 15: Deep soils develop quickly where rock weathers (slowly, rapidly or either slowly or quickly).

Answer:

rapidly Question 16: The climate in tropical regions increases the rate of weathering... forming the soil (more quickly or less quickly) than in deserts?

Answer:

more quickly

Question 17: lakes formed from glaciers

Answer:

cirques Question 18: What is the natural process that causes rocks to break down called?

Answer:

erosion Question 19: process that breaks rocks down into smaller pieces without changing them chemically

Answer:

mechanical weathering

Question 20: What is water flowing on Earth's surface causing erosion called?

Answer:

water erosion

Question 21: How much time do rocks take to weather into the soil?

Answer:

perhaps thousands of years

Question 22: acid rain is a type of what?

Answer:

chemical weathering Question 23: Which of the following forms when carbon dioxide combines with water? (calcium carbonate, carbonic acid, tannic acid, dripstone)

Answer:

carbonic acid

Question 24: name 2 agents of chemical weathering

Answer:

natural acids, plant acids Question 25: Which type of mass movement occurs when sediments slowly move downhill?(creep, rock slide, slump, mudflow)

Answer:

creep

Question 26: water that flows over earth's surface

Answer:

run off

Question 27: What influences soil development?

Answer:

topography

Question 28: in lower areas, wind and water will deposit?

Answer:

sediment