Unit 1 test

Question 1

Quantity

Answer 1

With numbers

Question 2

Qualitative

Answer 2

Apeperence

Question 3

Oxidation

Answer 3

Rust

Question 4

Eriosion

Answer 4

Process of wearing away objects and carrying them

Question 5

Weathering

Answer 5

Process of breaking down rocks into very tiny peices

Question 6

Glacier

Answer 6

Large body of year round ice and snow that moves slowly across the land and deposits sediment where it melts.

Question 7

Volcanoes

Answer 7

A mountain or hill having a crater of vent through which lava, rocks, hot vapor and gas are released into the air.

Question 8

Mountain

Answer 8

Landform that is usually higher than 1000 ft

Question 9

Canyon

Answer 9

Steep ravine that was formed by water and wind and usually has a river inside of them.

Question 10

Sand dune

Answer 10

A hill of sand made and shaped by wind

Question 11

Island

Answer 11

A body or land completely surrounded by water.

Question 12

River

Answer 12

A large natural stream that flows

Question 13

Landform

Answer 13

A physical feature of the earths surface

Question 14

Cave

Answer 14

A large underground chamber typically of natural origin in a hillside or cliff

Question 15

Valley

Answer 15

Long low area of land between hills or ranges of mountains

Question 16

Depostion

Answer 16

Process of dropping sediment in another location

Question 17

Plain

Answer 17

Large flat area of land with fee trees

Question 18

Hill

Answer 18

A rounded elevated area of land smaller than a mountain

Question 19

Coastline

Answer 19

Where the rock of land meets the ocean

Question 20

Delta

Answer 20

An area of new land at the mouth of a river that is formed when a river slows and deposits sediment

Question 21

Sinkholes

Answer 21

Forms when a cave near the surface rapidly collapses

Question 22

Beach

Answer 22

Sand is deposited on the edge of a coastline

Question 23

Destructive forced

Answer 23

Forces that destroy earths surface

Question 24

Constructive forces

Answer 24

Forces that build features on the earths surface

Question 25

Independent variable

Answer 25

Factor that is tested, added or changed

Question 26

Dependent variable

Answer 26

Factor that is measured

Question 27

Standardized/ controlled variable

Answer 27

Factors kept the same in all samples.

Question 28

Control group

Answer 28

Group not given the independent variable

Question 29

Abrasion

Answer 29

When rock particles wear away rock

Question 30

Repition

Answer 30

Multiple trials of the same procedure by you

Question 31

Replication

Answer 31

Other scientists completing the same procedure

Question 32

Sand bar

Answer 32

A place where sand is deposited along a coastline where the speed of the waves slow down

Question 33

Animal actions

Answer 33

When the ground breaks away by animals burrowing

Question 34

Freezing and thawing

Answer 34

When rocks break from ice wedging

Question 35

Chemical weathering

Answer 35

When rock break down through chemicals changes that include water oxygen carbon dioxide living organisms and acid rain

Question 36

Acid rain

Answer 36

Results from burning fossil fuels causing minerals to wear away rapidly

Question 37

Plant growth

Answer 37

When roots grew into cracks of rocks and pry them apart

Question 38

Mechanical weathering

Answer 38

When a rock is physically broken down into smaller pieces

Question 39

Living organisms

Answer 39

Plants produce weak acid that slowly dissolve rock that surrounds roots