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100
What is a human intervention to prevent flooding?
a. Building a river.
b. Building a dam.
c. Building an asphalt parking lot.
b. Building a dam.
100
Slightly hilly farmland is plowed in curves rather than straight line. This kind of plowing is called "contour plowing". Why is this type of plowing done?
a. To make crops more attractive.
b. To prevent the loss of topsoil.
c. To increase safety during harvest.
d. To reduce the number of insect pests in crops.
b. To prevent the loss of topsoil.
100
What item is placed along rivers to control flooding?
a. Levee
b. Storm drain
c. Floodway
a. Levee
100
Which process results in the Earth's surfaces being built up?
a. earthquakes
b. hurricanes
c. deposition
d. floods
c. depostion
100
As magma pushes up through Earth's surface, ___________ are formed.
a. earthquakes
b. faults
c. lava
d. volcano
d. volcano
200
Mrs. Smith placed some chalk into a glass jar. She shook the jar and then dumped the contents onto a plate. She noticed the chalk slide down the pile. Which destructive process is similar to the shaking of the chalk in the glass jar?
a. deposition b. erosion c. weathering
c. weathering
200
Sand dunes are hills of sand that form in deserts and along seashores where winds are strong. What are sand dunes the result of?
a. Erosion
b. Pollution
c. Deposition
d. Weathering
c. Deposition
200
When a volcano erupts the lava that is released from a volcano will harden and form new land, bringing rich soil for farming. Is this an example of a constructive or destructive force?
a. Constructive force
b. Destructive force
a. Constructive force
200
What are four causes of weathering?
a. Water, wind, ice, plant roots.
b. Concrete, soil, wind, erosion
c. Trees, soil, plants, glaciers
a. Water, wind, ice, plant roots.
200
What will help reduce beach erosion?
a. terrace farming
b. weathering
c. beach nourishment
d. storm drains
c. beach nourishment
300
What is the natural process of rocks being broken down and worn away over time known as?
a. Melting
b. Sedimentation
c. Cementing
d. Weathering
d. Weathering
300
How does moving water cause weathering?
a. It knocks rocks into other rocks.
b. It expands and causes cracks in the rocks.
c. It grows through cracks and breaks the rock apart.
a. It knocks rocks into other rocks.
300
Where do earthquakes happen?
a. In the ocean.
b. At the fault lines on plate boundaries.
c. In the mountains.
b. At the fault lines on plate boundaries.
300
What is the Earth's outer layer called?
a. Crust
b. Land
c. Atmosphere
d. Sky
a. Crust
300
What caused the change in the photo above?
a. humidity b. contour plowing c. erosion
c. erosion
400
Earth's surface has been changed by fast-moving water. Which example shows this?
a. Canyon
b. Lake
c. Volcano
d. Earthquake
a. Canyon
400
What is a valley?
a. A large area of land.
b. Land with water on 3 sides.
c. Land between mountains or hills.
d. Large mass of ice.
c. Land between mountains or hills.
400
What is the process of breaking down rocks at or near Earth's surface into smaller pieces?
a. Erosion
b. Flooding
c. Weathering
d. Wind
c. Weathering
400
Landforms are constantly ______ ?
a. Staying the same
b. Changing
c. Destroyed
b. Changing
400
A _____________ is a system of underground pipes used to control flooding by moving the water away from homes, businesses or towns.
a. floodways
b. storm drains
c. dams
b. storm drains
500
What are dams used for?
a. To help control floods.
b. To detect earthquakes.
c. To prevent erosion.
d. To detect seismic activity.
a. To help control floods.
500
Deposits made at the mouth of a river are created by a constructive force called deposition. These deposits help form which surface feature?
a. sand dune
b. delta
c. glaciers
b. delta
500
A river cutting a valley is an example of which of the following.?
a. A landslide c. Constructive force
b. A sinkhole d. Weathering and Erosion
d. Weathering and Erosion
500
What is this an example of?
a. Peninsula c. Glacier
b. Plateau d. Plain
c. Glacier
500
The beach's sand is eroded on a daily basis by water from the ocean's waves. Is Beach nourishment a temporary solution to beach erosion?
a. yes
B. no
a. yes