Chapter 5.4 Effects of Weather on the Land

What is a large area of land that has a distinct group of plants, animals, and other species?

• ecoregion

• deposition

• erosion

• watershed

In the Texas’s Pineywoods ecoregion, what percent of the original forest remains?

• 3 percent

• 4 percent

• 5 percent

• 6 percent

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Precipitation that soaks into the cracks and pores beneath Earth’s surface is called ______________.

• ecoregion

• deposition

• groundwater

• watershed

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What is the water that fills lakes and rivers called?

• salt water

• ground water

• surface water

• none of the above.

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When all runoff drains into the same body of water it creates a (n) ______________.

• ecoregion

• deposition

• groundwater

• watershed

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What carries nutrients and sediments to new parts of a watershed?

• humans

• animals

• floods

• snow

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Water, wind, and ice move across Earth, they can break down rock in a process called _______________.

• erosion

• deposition

• weathering

• none of the above

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What process breaks rock into smaller pieces without changing its composition?

• physical weathering.

• erosion.

• chemical weathering.

• deposition.

As water slows, eroded material is laid down and settles in a process called _______________.

• erosion

• deposition

• weathering

• none of the above

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The process of moving weathered material from one location to another is called _______________.

• erosion

• deposition

• weathering

• none of the above