Quiz 7

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Quiz 7

MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. What type of weathering will break a rock by the contraction and expansion of water to ice? o A) Frost wedging

2. __________________consists of sediment particles that are mechanically transported by suspension within a stream or river. o B) suspended load

3. A _______ involves a rotational movement of rock or regolith. o D) slump

4. Glacial ______________ are usually multiple, straight, and parallel, representing the movement of the glacier using small rocks and pebbles, embedded in the base of the glacier, as cutting tools. o C) striations

5. Small boulders carried along underneath the glacier provide the abrasive power to cut trough-like glacial ________________. o A) grooves

6. ____________ is the set of processes that breaks down the rock in place, no movement is involved. o B) weathering

7. As soon as a rock particle (loosened by the weathering processes) is transported somewhere else, that process is called __________. o A) erosion

8. __________________ is simply movement down slope due to gravity.

o D) mass wasting

9. ___________________________ involves a chemical change in at least some of the minerals within a rock during its break down. o B) chemical weathering

10. ___________________________ involves physically breaking rocks into fragments without changing the chemical make-up of the minerals within it. o A) mechanical weathering

11. _______________ is the breakdown of the rock in place (in situ o B) Weathering

12. _______________ is the transportation of this loose material mainly by water, but also by wind (Aeolian), ice and gravity. o A) Erosion

13.___________________ weathering involves a chemical change in at least some of the minerals within a rock during its break down. o C) Chemical

14.___________________ weathering involves physically breaking rocks into fragments without changing the chemical make-up of the minerals within it. o D) Mechanical

15. ____________ is an example of mechanical weathering produced by the action of plants roots breaking up rocks. o D) Root wedging

16. ____________ is an example of mechanical weathering produced by the freezing and thawing of water. o B) Frost wedging

17. ________________ - Organic matter (The uppermost horizon in many soil profiles.) o C) O Horizon

18. ________________ - Dark-colored layer of mixed mineral and organic matter

(typically dark in color because of the humus present) o B) A Horizon

19. ________________ - Light-colored layer marked by removal of soluble material ( typically grayish in color because it contains little humus, more common in acidic soils of evergreen forests). o A) E Horizon

20. ________________ - Maximum accumulation of clay minerals (Brownish or reddish in color because of the presence of iron hydroxides from transported horizons above. o E) B Horizon

21. ________________ - Weathered parent rock. o D) C Horizon

TRUE OR FALSE

22. Suspended load is sediment that is moved along the bottom of a stream, mainly boulder cobbles and pebbles are pushed by the water. o FALSE

23. The sand grains are also pushed along the bottom of a river by a process called saltation (jumping). o TRUE

24. Bedload is the sediment that is carried in suspension by a flowing stream of water, the sediment here is mainly silt and clay. o FALSE

25. Dissolved load - soluble materials that are carried on top of the stream along with floating organic matter. o FALSE

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