Effects of Earth's Water Review Material

The Nile Delta was formed from ocean waves and currents

• True

• False

A major erosional agent in areas with limited precipitation and high temperatures is ______.

• Water

• acid precipitation

• wind

• waves

Coastal areas undergo erosion by ______ and wind.

• glaciers

• ocean waves

• acid precipitation

• deposition

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______ is the erosion by running water of a small channel on the side of a slope

• deposition

• rill erosion

• gully erosion

• meander drift

A major problem in farming areas is ______, which is the deepening and widening of rill channels.

• delta formation

• gully erosion

• rill erosion

• meander drift

the steeper the slope, the ____ the potential for flowing water to erode earth's materials

• smaller

• greater

• wider

• lesser

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______ is caused mainly by emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides.

• carbon dioxide

• carbonic acid

• acid precipitation

• composition

The final stage of the erosional process in which materials are dropped in another location

• weathering

• erosion

• deposition

• slope effect

A U-shaped valley indicates that glacial erosion has taken place.

• True

• False

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when carbon dioxide combines with water, it produces a weak acid called ________.

• carbon dioxide

• acid precipitation

• carbonic acid

• sulfuric acid