The Dynamic Of Earth Unit 1: 3,4&5 Quiz

Question 1

What is deposition?

Answer 1

Process by which eroded material is dropped.

Question 2

What is Gradient?

Answer 2

The measure of change in elevation over a certain distance

Question 3

What is a load?

Answer 3

Materials carried by a stream.

Question 4

What is discharge?

Answer 4

The amount of water that a stream carries in a given amount of time.

Question 5

What is a path that a stream follows?

Answer 5

Channel

Question 6

What is a floodplain?

Answer 6

Many layers of deposited sediment that forms a flat area.

Question 7

What is a meander?

Answer 7

Curves and bends that form a twisting, looping pattern in a stream channel.

Question 8

What is a delta?

Answer 8

A fan-shaped pattern that streams deposit their loads.

Question 9

What is an alluvial fan?

Answer 9

A fan-shaped deposit that forms on dry land.

Question 10

What is water that is located within the rocks below earth’s surface?

Answer 10

Groundwater

Question 11

What is a place where land and a body of water meet?

Answer 11

Shoreline

Question 12

First parts of a shoreline that waves meet is what?

Answer 12

Headlands

Question 13

When water travels almost parallel to the shoreline very near shore what is the current called?

Answer 13

Longshore current

Question 14

What forms when waves erode and undercut rock to make steep slopes?

Answer 14

A Sea Cliff

Question 15

As a sea cliff erodes above the waterline, a bench of rock usually remains beneath the water at the cliff’s base. What is this bench called?

Answer 15

Wave-cut platform.

Question 16

Waves can cut deeply into the cracks and form large holes. As the holes continue to erode they become what?

Answer 16

Sea caves.

Question 17

What forms when wave action erodes sea caves until a hole cuts through a headland?

Answer 17

Sea arches

Question 18

What forms when the tops of sea arches collapse and leave behind isolated columns of rock?

Answer 18

Sea stacks

Question 19

What is an area of shoreline that is made up of material deposited by waves and currents?

Answer 19

A beach

Question 20

What is an underwater or exposed ridge of sand, gravel, or shell material.

Answer 20

Sandbar

Question 21

What are tiny grains of broken down rock called?

Answer 21

Sediment

Question 22

A rapid movement of a large mass of mud?

Answer 22

Mudflow

Question 23

The first parts of the shoreline that waves meet?

Answer 23

Headlands

Question 24

The current of water that travels parallel to the shoreline

Answer 24

Longshore Current

Question 25

Calcite deposits from the groundwater that form from the ground up?

Answer 25

Stalagmites

Question 26

The movement of water and minerals from the A to B horizon?

Answer 26

Leaching

Question 27

Materials carried by a stream are called?

Answer 27

Stream Load

Question 28

A loose mixture of small rock fragments, organic matter, water and air that supports vegetation.

Answer 28

Soil

Question 29

The amount of water that a stream carries in a given amount of time.

Answer 29

Discharge

Question 30

What are the three factors that resulted to s streams ability to erode material?

Answer 30

Discharge load and gradient.

Question 31

The top soil of the soil profile that has decade | organic matter is called?

Answer 31

A Horizon

Question 32

This horizon is the least developed profile and it has no organic matter and has large rock fragments.

Answer 32

Horizon C

Question 33

The different physical properties of soil are called?

Answer 33

Soil Horizon

Question 34

Streams that deposit loads in a fan shaped pattern into the ocean is what?

Answer 34

Delta

Question 35

Large mass of moving ice that forms from compacted snow is a glacier

Answer 35

Glacier

Question 36

The process where eroded material is dropped?

Answer 36

Deposition

Question 37

All the materials carried and deposited by a glacier?

Answer 37

Glacial drift

Question 38

Shifting of materials from Gravity that influences movement of water rocks, and soil.

Answer 38

Mass movement

Question 39

The bowl shaped depression that is carved out from an alpine glacier.

Answer 39

Cirques

Question 40

When three or more aretes they form a sharp peak on the alpine glaciers.

Answer 40

Horns

Question 41

Wind blown fine grain sediment is called?

Answer 41

Loess

Question 42

Thick, flat sheets of ice that spread over large areas.

Answer 42

Glacier

Question 43

The largest particle of soil.

Answer 43

Sand

Question 44

What is the smallest particle of soil?

Answer 44

Clay

Question 45

PH stands for what?

Answer 45

Potential of hydrogen

Question 46

On land sand empties out on a fan shaped surface.

Answer 46

Alluvial fan

Question 47

A sharp ridge that forms between two cirques on an alpine glacier.

Answer 47

Arete

Question 48

What river goes through the Grand Canyon

Answer 48

Colorado River

Question 49

A sudden and rapid movement of a large amount of material.

Answer 49

Landslide.

Question 50

The process where sediments and other materials are moved from one place to another?

Answer 50

Erosion

Question 51

What describes the spaces between soil particles.

Answer 51

Pore space

Question 52

What forms when a sea cliff is warn back from shore making a level at the base of a cliff.

Answer 52

Wave cut platform

Question 53

The grinding and wearing down of rock surfaces by other rocks or sand particles.

Answer 53

Abrasion

Question 54

The removal of fine sediment by wind is called?

Answer 54

Deflation

Question 55

The slow movement of material down slope

Answer 55

Creep

Question 56

What are three costal landforms that are made by deposition.

Answer 56

Beaches, sand bar, barrier islands

Question 57

What is an underwater ridge of sand in the ocean?

Answer 57

Sandbar

Question 58

What describes the amounts of differently sized soil particles

Answer 58

Soil Texture

Question 59

What happens when loose rocks fall down a steep slope?

Answer 59

Rockfall

Question 60

Water that curves and bends into stream channels ?

Answer 60

Meanders

Question 61

What are the five properties of soil?

Answer 61

Soil texture, soil color, pore space, chemistry, and fertitility

Question 62

What is the measure of change in elevation over a certain distance?

Answer 62

Gradient

Question 63

Flat area where layers of sediments are deposited

Answer 63

Floodplain

Question 64

Soil profile that has less humus

Answer 64

B Horizon

Question 65

What forms when waves cut holes at weak rocks at the base of sea cliffs

Answer 65

Sea caves

Question 66

The cutoff when a meanders forms a crescent snapped plate

Answer 66

Oxbo lake

Question 67

The remains of decayed organic matter broken down in soil is what?

Answer 67

Humus

Question 68

What is a long narrow island that forms parallel to the shore line

Answer 68

Barrier island

Question 69

The mounds of wind deposited sand

Answer 69

Sand dunes

Question 70

What are the four factors that determine how long it takes for soils to form?

Answer 70

1) climate 2) plant 3) animal action 4) topography 5) rock type

Question 71

What is erosion?

Answer 71

The process by which sediment and other materials are moved from one place to another.