Download Reshaping the Land Unit Study Guide 1. What type of weathering

Reshaping the Land Unit Study Guide
1. What type of weathering includes ice, water, wind, gravity, animals, and plants?__________________________
2. What is it called when wind blows sand and silt against exposed rock, eventually wearing away the rock’s
surface? ____________________________________________________________________________________
3. What term describes when rocks break down because of chemical reactions?_____________________________
4. What term describes rain, sleet, or snow with a high concentration of acids?_____________________________
5. What type of chemical weathering causes a karst landscape, such as a cavern?____________________________
6. How do lichens slowly break down a rock?_________________________________________________________
7. Give an example of something that could experience oxidation.________________________________________
8. A marble statue left outside is weathered down over time. This type of weathering is probably caused by
__________________________________________________________________________________________.
9. At what elevation would rocks be exposed to more wind, rain, and ice?__________________________________
10. What type of weather would cause rapid chemical weathering?________________________________________
11. Soil formation begins with the weathering of ______________________________________________________.
12. Is soil with a pH of 10 considered an acid or a base?__________________________________________________
13. What term describes the soil’s ability to hold nutrients and to supply nutrients to a plant called?____________
14. When plants and animals decay_______________________________________________ forms in the soil.
15. Soils that are rich in humus have high ____________________________________________________________.
16. How do living organisms help the soil?____________________________________________________________
17. The process by which natural forces move weathered rock and soil from one place to another is called________
18. What powers the water cycle?___________________________________________________________________
19. What is the process by which rivers lay down material they are carrying?________________________________
20. What feature is formed when sediment is deposited as a river flows into an ocean or a lake?________________
21. What feature is formed when sediment is deposited on dry land after a stream flows out of a steep mountain
valley?_____________________________________________________________________________________
22. What is a flat, wide area of land along a river called?________________________________________________
23. A river flowing across a wide flood plain begins to form looplike bends called ____________________________.
24. Deltas are built up by ____________________________________.
25. What do waves make when they break rock into smaller pieces?_______________________________________
26. Give an example of a common offshore deposit.____________________________________________________
27. What term describes the process in which wind removes surface materials?_____________________________
28. What are rocks that are left behind after the wind has blown all the soil away called?______________________
29. Why are glaciers called “rivers of ice?”____________________________________________________________
30. What is the force that moves glaciers?____________________________________________________________
31. What type of glacier forms in mountainous regions?_________________________________________________
32. What can smooth the landscape and flatten mountains?______________________________________________
33. Explain what would happen to Earth’s glaciers and oceans if the overall temperature of the Earth continues to
rise.________________________________________________________________________________________
34. Landslides, mudflows, slump, and creep are all examples of __________________________________________.
35. What term describes loose rocks that fall down a slope?______________________________________________
36. What term describes a lot of mud moving downhill?_________________________________________________
37. What term describes rock and soil moving down a hill very slowly?_____________________________________
38. Water vapor turns into droplets of liquid water in the process of ______________________________________.
39. Water from a lake changes into the gas state in the process of ________________________________________.
40. In which process do producers use carbon from carbon dioxide to produce other carbon-containing molecules?
___________________________________________________________________________________________
41. Certain bacteria change nitrogen gas into a usable form in a process called ______________________________.
42. A student wants to determine if added nitrogen will help plants grow taller. The student sets up two groups of
plants. Group 1 consists of plants with added nitrogen and Group 2 consists of the plants without nitrogen. The
student makes sure to use the same type of plant. He measures the plant growth weekly.
A.
What is the dependent variable?____________________________________________________________
B. What is the independent variable?____________________________________________________________
C. What is the control?_______________________________________________________________________
D. List a controlled variable.____________________________________________________________________