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Question 1 of 25

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What is anthropogenic mass movement?

Select one of the following:

  • When rocks are moving along the ocean bed

  • When there is a landslide

  • Human disturbance of a slope

  • When flows are moving fast

Explanation

Question 2 of 25

1

What are the four classes of mass movement?

Select one of the following:

  • Slides down, basalt movement, shift movement, quartz movement

  • Fall, slide, flow, and creep movement

  • Road, surface, climb and dissolve movement

  • Alpha patterns and fast slope movement

Explanation

Question 3 of 25

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Name of the science that studies origin, evolution, and spatial distribution of landforms?

Select one of the following:

  • Geomorphology

  • Geography

  • Hydrology

  • Meteorology

Explanation

Question 4 of 25

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In order for limestone to develop into Karat topography, it must contain what % calcium carbonate?

Select one of the following:

  • 50 %

  • 80%

  • 10%

  • 40%

Explanation

Question 5 of 25

1

Chemical weathering always involves the presence of

Select one of the following:

  • Oil

  • Bacteria

  • Sand

  • Water

Explanation

Question 6 of 25

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Chemical weathering is the ___________of rock with chemical alterations to the rock.

Select one of the following:

  • disintegration

  • Evaluation

  • Integration

  • Surface

Explanation

Question 7 of 25

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What is known as the angle of repose?

Select one of the following:

  • Incline where gravity does not pull.

  • Sediments on slope remain at rest at the maximum incline.

  • Regolith

  • Free face

Explanation

Question 8 of 25

1

Name of the science that studies origin, evolution, and spatial distribution of landforms?

Select one of the following:

  • Geomorphology

  • Geography

  • Hydrology

  • Meteorology

Explanation

Question 9 of 25

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What type of a rock is a Marble rock?

Select one of the following:

  • Sedimentary

  • Igneous

  • Metamophic

  • Porphyritic

Explanation

Question 10 of 25

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If material is to move down slope, it must overcome the force of ____?

Select one of the following:

  • Inertial resistance of the material only

  • Inertial resistance to none of material

  • friction and cohesion of particles

  • friction, cohesion of particles, and inertial resistanc

Explanation

Question 11 of 25

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Erosion transport materials to different locations by _______?

Select one of the following:

  • Waves, ice, wind, gravity, water, and air

  • Water, wind, gravity, ice and waves

  • Air, gravity, ice, snow, waves

  • Water, gravity

Explanation

Question 12 of 25

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A slope whose strength exceeds the combined force of gravity is considered what?

Select one of the following:

  • Unstable

  • Wavering

  • Stable

  • Waxing

Explanation

Question 13 of 25

1

What does the physical and chemical processes refers to?

Select one of the following:

  • Weathering

  • Parent Rock

  • Rock Information

  • Deposited downslope

Explanation

Question 14 of 25

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What is joints?

Select one of the following:

  • Differential weathering

  • Fractures in rocks that occur without displacement.

  • Affect weathering temperature

  • Surface area of rock exposed toweathering

Explanation

Question 15 of 25

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What is joints?

Select one of the following:

  • Affect weathering temperature

  • Fractures in rocks that occur without displacement

  • Differential weathering

  • Surface area of rock exposed to weathering.

Explanation

Question 16 of 25

1

Physical weathering caused by crystallization help to form_______?

Select one of the following:

  • Sandstone and pressure

  • Niche in the canyon wall

  • Slabs of rocks

  • Granite

Explanation

Question 17 of 25

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What is Hydrolysis?

Select one of the following:

  • Minerals chemically react with water

  • Sharpe edge corrosion

  • Hydration

  • When clay and silica mix together

Explanation

Question 18 of 25

1

How does oxidation occur?

Select one of the following:

  • When metallic elements combine w/oxygen to form oxides

  • when rock is susceptible

  • When water combines with rock

  • Rusty colors shown on the surface of some rocks

Explanation

Question 19 of 25

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What makes a rock intrusive ?

Select one of the following:

  • Fragments of eroded rocks

  • Presence of large crystals and its cooling process.

  • Ocean and lakes processes

  • From volcanic activity

Explanation

Question 20 of 25

1

What is a landslide?

Select one of the following:

  • Rapid movement of bedrock not saturated with moisture

  • Frequent clay movement

  • A lake of gravel

  • A warning overlap

Explanation

Question 21 of 25

1

What type of a rock is a Marble rock?

Select one of the following:

  • Porphyritic

  • Metamophic

  • Igneous

  • Sedimentary

Explanation

Question 22 of 25

1

What is Frost action?

Select one of the following:

  • Frozen rocks form a talus slope

  • When freezing water expands into ice

  • When rock falls into freezing water

  • When frozen rocks falls into the ocean

Explanation

Question 23 of 25

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List 1 factors that influence weather?

Select one of the following:

  • Rock composition

  • Joining

  • Displacement

  • Angle of repose

Explanation

Question 24 of 25

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Is the texture of a marble rock round in structure with semi pascal colors ?

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 25 of 25

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Does the characteristics of a rock indicates whether or not its a clatic or nonclasticv rock?

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

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