Physical Weathering
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Know about agent of physical weathering, how physical weathering occurs, and what the results of physical weathering are.
- 1.
- A.
The breakdown of rock material by chemical and physical means.
- B.
The wearing away of rock material by the action of another rock.
- C.
The process by whick rock is broken down into smaller pieces by physical changes.
- D.
The breakdown of rock by chemical means.
- 2.
- A.
Abrasion
- B.
Pressure Change
- C.
Animal Action
- D.
Plant Growth
- 3.What term would you use for when rocks are tumbled in water.
- A.
Erosion
- B.
Abrasion
- C.
Oxidation
- D.
Pressure Change
- 4.
- A.
Gravity
- B.
Deposition
- C.
Deposition and Erosion
- D.
Erosion
- 5.
- A.
Gravity, plant acids, ice, temperature, and waves.
- B.
Talus slope, drumlin, dunes, delta, and beach.
- C.
Deposition, erosion, abrasion, chemical weathering, and water.
- D.
Gravity, glaciers, wind, water, and waves.
- 6.
- A.
Precipitaion filled with acids from the air.
- B.
Change in temperature.
- C.
The process where water frezzes into cracks and expands the rock from within.
- D.
Plant and Animal Action
- 7.
- A.
The formation of the Grand Canyon.
- B.
Rust on an old nail.
- C.
Stalagmites and Stalactites
- D.
Acid Precipitation
- 8.What procces DOES NOT cause rock to be seperated by physical means.
- A.
Oxidation
- B.
Acid precipitation
- C.
Chemical weathering
- D.
All of the above
- 9.
- A.
Climate, day, population.
- B.
Composition off rocks, climate, amount of time, amout of exposure.
- C.
Erosion and deposition
- D.
Delta, valleys, canyons.
- 10.What is the rate of weathering?
- A.
How slow something is
- B.
How fast an animal deceases.
- C.
How tall a human can get.
- D.
How fast the weathering of an object occurs.
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