Quiz about Weathering/Erosion/Soil

Question 1

What Soil Horizon is highlighted in RED?

Accepted Answer

Bedrock

Answer

Weathered Rock

Answer

Topsoil

Answer

Subsoil

Answer

Humus

Question 2

What soil layer is highlighted in RED?

Accepted Answer

Humus

Answer

Topsoil

Answer

Bedrock

Answer

Subsoil

Answer

Weathered Rock

Question 3

What soil layer is highlighted in RED?

Accepted Answer

Subsoil

Answer

Topsoil

Answer

Weathered Rock

Answer

Humus

Answer

Bedrock

Question 4

What soil layer is highlighted in RED?

Accepted Answer

Topsoil

Answer

Subsoil

Answer

Humus

Answer

Bedrock

Answer

Weathered Rock

Question 5

What soil layer is highlighted in RED?

Accepted Answer

Weathered Rock

Answer

Bedrock

Answer

Topsoil

Answer

Subsoil

Answer

Humus

Question 6

Which Soil Horizon is "A"?

Accepted Answer

Topsoil

Answer

Subsoil

Answer

Humus

Answer

Weathered Rock

Answer

Bedrock

Question 7

Which Soil Horizon is "B"?

Accepted Answer

Subsoil

Answer

Topsoil

Answer

Humus

Answer

Weathered Rock

Answer

Bedrock

Question 8

Which Soil Horizon is "C"?

Accepted Answer

Weathered Rock

Answer

Topsoil

Answer

Humus

Answer

Subsoil

Answer

Bedrock

Question 9

Which Soil Horizon is "D"?

Accepted Answer

Bedrock

Answer

Topsoil

Answer

Subsoil

Answer

Humus

Answer

Weathered Rock

Question 10

Which Soil Horizon is "O"?

Accepted Answer

Humus

Answer

Topsoil

Answer

Subsoil

Answer

Bedrock

Answer

Weathered Rock

Question 11

When organic material decays, it becomes what?

Accepted Answer

Humus

Answer

Subsoil

Answer

Topsoil

Answer

Weathered Rock

Question 12

Which layer contain most of the Fungi, Worms and Organic matter?

Accepted Answer

X

Answer

W

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Y

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Z

Question 13

Which Soil has the most organic matter (Humus)?

Accepted Answer

X because it is darker

Answer

X because it is smoother

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Y because it has minerals

Answer

Y because it has more rock particles

Question 14

How do Worms help the soil?

Accepted Answer

They eat decaying matter and break it up.

Answer

They help with Chemical weathering.

Answer

They break up rocks into sediment.

Answer

They absorb water from soil.

Question 15

Which describes Soil Horizon "O"?

Accepted Answer

This layer is made of decomposing materials.

Answer

This layer is made of weathered rocks.

Answer

This light layer contain no humus.

Question 16

Which describes Soil Horizon "A"?

Accepted Answer

This dark layer has minerals and humus.

Answer

This dark layer has no humus.

Answer

This lighter layer is made of clay.

Question 17

Which Soil Horizon is "B"?

Accepted Answer

This light layer has minerals, clay and some humus.

Answer

This light layer has only weathered rock.

Answer

This dark layer has lots of humus.

Question 18

Which Soil Horizon is "C"?

Accepted Answer

This light layer contains no humus.

Answer

This light layer has minerals and humus.

Answer

This dark layer contains organic material.

Question 19

What is the movement of sediment to a new location?

Accepted Answer

Erosion

Answer

Weathering

Answer

Deposition

Question 20

What is the breaking down of rock into sediment?

Accepted Answer

Weathering

Answer

Erosion

Answer

Deposition

Question 21

What is the dropping of sediment?

Accepted Answer

Deposition

Answer

Weathering

Answer

Erosion

Question 22

What process is happening in this picture?

Accepted Answer

Weathering

Answer

Erosion

Answer

Deposition

Answer

Sedimentation

Question 23

What process is happening in this picture?

Accepted Answer

Erosion

Answer

Weathering

Answer

Deposition

Question 24

What process formed this Delta?

Accepted Answer

Deposition

Answer

Weathering

Answer

Erosion

Question 25

Which mountains are younger?

Accepted Answer

Rockies because they have sharper peaks.

Answer

Rockies because their layers are more exposed.

Answer

Rockies because they are in cooler climate.

Answer

Appalachians because they have rounded tops.

Question 26

What would cause this boulder to get smaller over time?

Accepted Answer

Wind and water will weather its surface.

Answer

Its weight would compress it.

Answer

The sun's heat would evaporate water from it.

Answer

Rock particles will cement into smaller layers.

Question 27

What process would destroy this sandcastle?

Accepted Answer

Erosion by water

Answer

Weathering by wind

Answer

Weathering by water

Answer

Erosion by wind

Question 28

What is the physical or mechanical breaking down of rocks into sediment?

Accepted Answer

Weathering

Answer

Erosion

Answer

Deposition

Answer

Soil Horizon

Question 29

What is happening in picture "X"?

Accepted Answer

Graph shows rock being broken down through weathering.

Answer

Graph shows sediment being moved through erosion.

Answer

Graph shows rocks being broken down through deposition.

Answer

Graph shows sediment being moved through weathering.

Question 30

What is happening in picture "Y"?

Accepted Answer

Graph shows rock being moved through erosion.

Answer

Graph shows rocks being broken down through deposition.

Answer

Graph shows sediment being moved through weathering.

Answer

Graph shows rock being broken down through sedimentation.

Question 31

What process formed Imnaha Canyon?

Accepted Answer

Moving water over millions of years

Answer

Evaporation of the river over a few years

Answer

Movement of ice downhill to the ocean

Answer

Subduction of plate boundaries

Question 32

What will eventually happen to this rock?

Accepted Answer

Plant roots will weather and break the rock.

Answer

Rock will absorb oxygen from plant and break.

Answer

Plant roots will erode the rock.

Answer

Rock will absorb minerals from the plant.

Question 33

As water hits this coastal cliff, what will it eventually look like?

Accepted Answer

Option C is correct

Answer

A.

Answer

B.

Answer

D.

Question 34

What geographical feature is shown in this picture?

Accepted Answer

a Delta

Answer

a Trench

Answer

an Island

Answer

a Beach

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