Earth's Changing Surface Quiz Questions
Please choose the correct answer. Be careful. This quiz may be tricky.
- 1.What is the difference between mechanical and chemical weathering?
- A.
There is no difference
- B.
Mechanical weathering is changing the comoposition, and chemical weathering is more like disintigration.
- C.
Chemical weathering alters the make up of each rock while mechanical weathering just breaks rocks apart.
- D.
They both change the compstition of the rock but mechanical weathering makes the rocks smaller
- 2.What is abrasion?
- A.
When rocks scrape together to create sand.
- B.
When rocks break down due to abrasive winds.
- C.
A type of chemical weathering that is because of acid rain.
- D.
A process by which animals weather away rocks.
- 3.The brown or red color of some rocks is due to a chemical reaction with:
- A.
Water : Hydrolysis
- B.
Air : Wind
- C.
Nitrogen: Acidic Weathering
- D.
Oxygen : Oxidation
- 4.What process cracked the play dough arround the ballon?
- A.
Seperation of oxygen
- B.
Frost wedging
- C.
Soil horizions
- D.
Subsoil
- 5.The soil in the horizon-B is:
- A.
Topsoil- blackish
- B.
Bottom soil- Brownish
- C.
Subsoil- Redish
- D.
It depends on what it's parent material is.
- 6.Transported soil comes from:
- A.
The weathering of rocks that moves with water.
- B.
People moving soil from one place to another.
- C.
Plants bringing new soil to a new location.
- D.
All of the above.
- 7.Topsoil;
- A.
Is dark brown, black.
- B.
Composed of fine particles.
- C.
Has minerals mixed with humus.
- D.
All of the above.
- 8.When soil looses so much neuriants that it can't support plant life it's called:
- A.
Soil Fertility
- B.
Soil talus
- C.
Soil Depletion
- D.
Soil Death
- 9.A volcanic neck is:
- A.
The top of the volcano that is filled with igneous rock.
- B.
The top of the volcano that is hardened magma.
- C.
Shaped by weathering and erosion
- D.
All of the above.
- 10.Mudflow is:
- A.
Water with mud
- B.
The movement of water with mud
- C.
The movement of water with mud in a lake
- D.
None of the above.
- 11.Explain how animals and plants contribute to weathering.
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