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1. Q: What is the process by which natural forces move weathered rock and soil from one place to another? |
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2. Q:What are landslides, mud flows, slump, and creep are all examples of? |
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3. Q: What is mass movement caused by? |
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4. What is a stream or river that runs into another stream or river is called? |
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5. Q: What is a a river flowing across a wide flood plain begins to form loop-like bends called? |
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6. Q:What are deltas built up by? |
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7. Q:Where does the energy that produces ocean waves come from? |
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8. Q: What is the process by which wind removes surface materials called? |
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9. Q: What are particles of clay and silt eroded and deposited by the wind called? |
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10. Q: How are glaciers formed? |
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11. Q: What is the process in which rock fragments freeze to the bottom of a glacier and then are carried away when the glacier moves is called |
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12. Q: What is evidence that an area was once covered by a glacier? |
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13. Q: What is a small depression that forms when a chunk of ice is left in glacial till is known as? |
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14. Q: What is the agent of mechanical weathering in which rock is worn away by the grinding action of other rock particles is called? |
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15. Q: How does ice wedging causes mechanical weathering of rock? |
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16. Q: What type of weathering causes the mineral composition of rocks to change? |
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17. Q: What type of weathering causes the mineral composition of rocks to change? |
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18. Q:What are the most important factors in determining the rate of weathering? |
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19. Q: The weathering of what causes soil formation to begin? |
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20. Q: What can be said about soil that is rich in humus? |
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21. Q: How do living organisms in the soil help? |
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22. Q: What do decomposers do for the soil? |
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23. Q: What is the practice of plowing fields along the curves of a slope called? |
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24. Q: What is loam made up of? |
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25. Q: What is the process that lays down sediment in a new location called? |
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