Understanding of Landforms - Questions

Competency Goal 2: The learner will make observations and conduct investigations to build an understanding of landforms.

Questions:

1. The process in which soil, sand, and sediment is formed is ___________.

A. erosion	C. weathering
B. landforms	D. deposition

2. The process of dropping sediment in a new location is ____________.

A. erosion	C. weathering
B. deposition	D. mass movement

3. ________________are physical features of the earth's surface.

A. landforms	C. erosion
B. earthquakes	D. deposition

4. Why does a rock crack when it is raining and the temperatures are dropping?

A. Rain caused it to crack.	C. Freezing water expanded to break the rock.
B. It fell from a cliff.	D. Acid rain caused it to break.

5. Why would footprints made on the moon last for hundreds of years?

A. There is no weathering on the moon.

B. There is no wind or water to erode the footprints.

C. The footprints are deep because of the shoes.

D. The deposits are made with space age materials.

6. Name the place in which wind weathering has occurred.

A. sand dunes	C. cliff or canyon
B. trees	D. ocean

7. What process is responsible for forming the Mississippi Delta?

A. weathering	C. erosion
B. deposition	D. mass movement

8. Place the events in order from 1-3.

___ New land is formed at the mouth	___ The river moves the sediment downstream to the mouth.
___ Sediment is carried by erosion into a river.

9. What happens to a delta over time?

A. It gets larger.	C. It stays the same.
B. It gets smaller.	D. It goes away.

10. _____________are thick sheets of ice that form where more snow falls in the winter, than melts in the summer.

A. ice caps	C. dunes
B. deltas	D. glaciers

11. Mass movement is the downhill movement of rock and soil caused by ____________.

A. gravity	C. acid rain
B. deltas	D. weathering

12. Water erodes the surface of the earth more than wind.

A. True
B. False

13. Which rock has been weathered more by water?

A.	C.
B.