Geo Final

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The chemical union of water with another substance is called

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Hydrolysis

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The most important type of mechanical weathering process is

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Frost Shattering

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The main downslope movement of subartic and artic landscape is

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Solifluction

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Water is a major agent of weathering because of its property that, when it freezes it decreases in density and

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Expands in volume

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The slowest and least perceptible form of mass wasting is

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Creep

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The rotting of rock by the various types of chemical weathering takes place best in

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Humid regions

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Which of the following must take place FIRST during the denudation of a landscape

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Weathering

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From a chemical standpoint, the three reacting agents of greatest importance to weathering are

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Carbon dioxide, oxygen, and water vapor

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Which of the following is most effective in weathering rock?

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Freeze/thaw cycles

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_____ and amount of moisture present can be used to classify types of mass wasting

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Speed of movement

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This drainage pattern looks like the veins on the underside of a leaf

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Dendritic

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Stream which flow for only part of the year are

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Intermittent

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An imaginary surface extending beneath the continents which limits how deep streams may cut is

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Base level

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Rivers downcutting into a land surface, in the absence of other forces, usually tend to erode a ____ shaped form

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V

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The total volume of flow in streams is termed

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Discharge

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Branching channels that cross a delta are known as

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Distributaries

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The process in which small particles are moves along by stream flow or wind in a series of jumps or bounces is

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Saltation

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The detachment and removal of fragmented rock material is known as

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Erosion

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On a meandering stream, maximum erosion takes place along the

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Outer edges of the meanders

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____ is a measure of the particle size a stream can transport

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Competence

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The process of shifting loose particles by blowing then into the air or rolling them on the ground is called

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The fluvial process

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The single most important agent of landscape formation in deserts is

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Water

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Africa's best example of an exotic river is

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The Nile

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Alluvial fans which have expanded and joined over time form a landscape feature known as a

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Bajada

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The steeper leeward side of a sand dune is called a

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Slip face

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The wind rolling pebbles across the desert surface is an example of

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Traction

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Sand dunes are composed mainly of individual grains of

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Quartz

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Rainfall I'm deserts

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Is usually intense

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Aeolian processes refer to those involving

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Wind

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Which of the following is NOT associated with the work of the wind

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Solution

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At its maximum extent, ice covered almost ____ of the earths land surface

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1/3

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The maximum extent of a glacier is marked by a

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Terminal moraine

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According to the map in the textbook, the southernmost extent of contemporary glaciers in the U.S is in CA and

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Colorado

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A huge boulder resting on a completely different type of bedrock in glacial zones is an

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Erratic

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The movement of a glacier is normally measured in ___ per day

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Centimeters

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A ____ is created by a group of cirques eroding into a mountain peak

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Horn

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Long sinuous ridges of stratified drift are termed

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Eskers

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The lower part of a glacier where there is a net annual loss of ice from melting and sublimation is the zone of

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Ablation

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Snow is changed by ____ into glacial ice

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Millions of years of time

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Glaciers carve ___ shaped valleys

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U

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Seismic sea waves may also be referred to as

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Tsunamis

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The single most important force in shaping coastal topography is the

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Waves

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The phenomenon of waves changing direction as they approach the shoreline is known as

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Refraction

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The oceanic tides rise and fall in a rythmic cycle that takes place roughly once every ___ hours

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12

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Beach and sand moves along the shore in a movement of materials called

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Beach drifting

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A___ is a landform which almost always assumes a circular shape

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Atoll

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Of you were floating in the middle of the ocean and a wave passed by, your motion would be

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Up and down

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Water moving roughly parallel to the shoreline is called

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A Longshore current

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A wave will break because

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The bottom interferes with its oscillatory motion

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In what time of year do beaches get smaller

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Winter

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Compare the height of normal waves and tsunami waves in the open ocean

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Normal waves are caused the wind, weather, tides and currents. Tsunami waves are not like normal waves because their wave length is a lot longer, instead of becoming a breaking wave, a tsunami resembles a very fast rising tide

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What is a tombolo

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A bar of sand or shingle joining a island to the mainland

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What are three erosion al landforms associated with alpine glaciers

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Glacial valleys and arêtes, hanging valleys, cirques, horns and cols

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What are three depositional landforms associated with continental glaciers

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Moraines, drumlins, kettles

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What is the difference in direction that barchan and parabolic dunes point

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Brachanoid: are crescent shaped, individual mounds formed from the upwind slope, sizes range from a meter to 100 meters.

Parabolic: are u or V shaped. Extend downward from blowouts in sand sheets only partly anchored by vegetation. Can also originate from beach snaps and extend inland in vegetated areas in coastal zones and shores of lakes

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What is loess?

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A loamy deposit formed by wind, common in Mississippi valleys, Europe and Asia

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What is an advantage and disadvantage of building a dam on a river

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Advantage: clean energy and regulated water supply

Dis: flooding of surrounded areas and disruption in ecosystem

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What is the difference between a tributary and distributary

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Distributaries are branches of a river. Tributaries are small channels or rivers that combine to form a main river