Earth Science Unit IV Exam Review Weathering, Erosion,

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Earth ScienceUnit IV Exam Review Weathering,
Erosion, Surface Processes
GET OUT YOUR REFERENCE TABLES
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Weather Dictionary
Need A Lift?
Weathering Potluck
Row, Row, Row Your Boat
You Saw It Here First
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You Saw It Here First 100 Points
Form Type of weathering shown here
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You Saw It Here First Answer 100 Points
Mechanical/Physical Frost Wedging
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You Saw It Here First 200 Points
Form Type of weathering shown here
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You Saw It Here First Answer 200 Points
Mechanical/Physical Frost Wedging
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You Saw It Here First 300 Points
Form Type of weathering shown here
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You Saw It Here First Answer 300 Points
Chemical Carbonation (acid rain)
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You Saw It Here First 400 Points
Form Type of weathering shown here
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You Saw It Here First Answer 400 Points
Chemical - Oxidation
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You Saw It Here First 500 POINTS
Form Type of weathering shown here
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You Saw It Here First Answer 500 Points
Chemical - Carbonation
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Row, Row, Row Your Boat 100 Points
Shape of valleys formed by the down cutting of
streams.
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Row, Row, Row Your BoatAnswer 100 Points
V
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Row, Row, Row Your Boat 200 Points
Name the shape formed by the stream shown in this
picture.
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Row, Row, Row Your Boat Answer 200 Points
Meander
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Row, Row, Row Your Boat 300 Points
As stream velocity decreases these particles are
deposited first.
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Row, Row, Row Your Boat Answer 300 Points
Larger Particles
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Row, Row, Row Your Boat 400 Points
Which profile matches the line A-A on the
diagram.
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Row, Row, Row Your Boat Answer 400 Points
B
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Row, Row, Row Your Boat 500 Points
Name the three ways that streams transport
materials.
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• Solution
• Suspension
• Bed Load/Rolling/Sliding

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Weathering Potluck 100 Points
Which block below would be more susceptible to
chemical weathering and why.
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Weathering Potluck Answer 100 Points
2 more surface area
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Weathering Potluck 200 Points
Rock layer that is LEAST resistant to weathering.
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Weathering Potluck Answer 200 Points
B
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Weathering Potluck 300 Points
Rock that has been exposed to the longest
period of stream abrasion.
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Weathering Potluck Answer 300 Points
C
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Weathering Potluck 400 Points
According to the map to the left, which would
experience the greatest chemical weathering and
why.
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Weathering Potluck Answer 400 Points
3 warm, moist climate
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Weathering Potluck 500 Points
Why statues made of marble weather quicker than
those made of granite.
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Weathering Potluck Answer 500 Points
Marble contains calcite which dissolved by
chemical weathering marble is softer
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Need A Lift? 100 Points
How fast does a stream have to be moving in order
to carry sediment 0.05 cm in diameter?
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Need A Lift? Answer 100 Points
80-90 cm/sec
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Need A Lift? 200 Points
Sediment type that has a size range of .0006 cm
to 0.2 cm.
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Sand
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Need A Lift? 300 Points
Minimum stream velocity needed to transport a
cobble. (/- 15)
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160 cm/sec
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Need A Lift? 400 Points
Water velocity needed to transport sediment that
is 1 cm in diameter AND name the type of sediment.
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Need A Lift? Answer 400 Points

• 100 cm/sec
• Pebble

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Need A Lift? 500 Points
Name BOTH of the features indicated by the arrows
and tell how they are formed.
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Need A Lift? Answer 500 Points
Cut Bank erosion/ faster moving water Point Bar
deposition/ slower water
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Weather Dictionary 100 Points
Breaking rocks down into smaller pieces without
changing their composition.
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Weather Dictionary Answer 100 Points
Mechanical/Physical Weathering
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Weather Dictionary 200 Points
Breakdown of rock by dissolving it or changing
its chemical composition.
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Weather Dictionary Answer 200 Points
Chemical Weathering
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Weather Dictionary 300 Points
Removal and transport of Earth materials by wind,
water, and ice.
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Weather Dictionary Answer 300 Points
Erosion
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Weather Dictionary 400 Points
Separates the zone of aeration from the zone of
saturation.
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Weather Dictionary Answer 400 Points
Water table
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Weather Dictionary 500 Points
Controls the velocity of a STRAIGHT stream if the
amount of water does not change (why it would
slow down after say 10 years)
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Weather Dictionary Answer 500 Points
Gradient/ Steepness of the slope
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Return of the Ice Man picture
What A Waste
Surfs Up
Ice, Ice Baby
Old Man River
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DAILY DOUBLE
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Old Man River 200 Points
As the velocity of a stream decreases the amount
of sediment in the water
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Old Man River Answer 200 Points
Decreases
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Old Man River 400 Points
How the levees formed.
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Old Man River Answer 400 Points
Deposition of particles when the river overflowed
its banks during a flood
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Old Man River 600 Points
Based on the Earth Science Reference Tables,
which size particle would remain suspended in
water the longest.
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Old Man River Answer 600 Points
Clay
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Old Man River 800 Points
Name of the feature seen here and how it formed.
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Old Man River Answer 800 Points
OxBow Lake when two cut banks on river meanders
connect and cut off part of the river
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Old Man River 1000 Points
Specific type of deposition seen here and how it
formed.
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Old Man River Answer 1000 Points
Graded Bedding decreasing stream velocity over
time sorted according to particle size - coarse
particles deposited first, fine last
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Ice, Ice Baby 200 Points
Shape of a valley formed by a glacier.
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U
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Ice, Ice Baby 400 Points
Bowl-shaped geographic feature where glaciers
begin.
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Cirque
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Where glaciers form at low latitudes.
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At higher elevations mountain tops
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How glaciers form.
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When average yearly snowfall is greater than
average yearly snow melt.
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Ice, Ice Baby 1000 Points
Name of the Alaskan glacier that I spent a month
at while in college.
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Ice, Ice Baby Answer 1000 Points
Bering
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Surfs Up 200 Points
Causes waves to form
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Surfs Up Answer 200 Points
Wind
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Surfs Up 400 Points
Which feature of a wave is shown below.
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Surfs Up Answer 400 Points
Wavelength
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Surfs Up 600 Points
Water pushed up the beach at an angle when waves
break.
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Swash
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Surfs Up 800 Points
Current that runs parallel to the beach.
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Longshore
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Surfs Up 1000 Points
State specifically where erosion and deposition
would occur on the diagram below.
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Current
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Surfs Up Answer 1000 Points
Erosion C Deposition - A
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What A Waste 200 Points
Name of the material piled up at the bottom of
this slope
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Talus
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What A Waste 400 Points
Type of mass wasting shown here.
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Slump
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What A Waste 600 Points
Type of mass wasting shown here.
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Creep
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What A Waste 800 Points
Type of mass wasting shown here.
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Mud Flow
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Type of mass wasting shown here.
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What A Waste Answer 1000 Points
Earthflow
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Return of the Ice Man 200 Points
What is the snow line.
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Return of the Ice Man Answer 200 Points
Line above which snow remains year round
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Return of the Ice Man 400 Points
Part of the glacier that moves the fastest
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Return of the Ice Man Answer 400 Points
Middle like a stream
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Return of the Ice Man 600 Points
Type of glacier seen here
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Valley/Alpine
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Name the feature shown in the picture below
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Medial Moraine
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Return of the Ice Man 1000 Points
Name of all unsorted material left behind by
glaciers.
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Till
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Daily Double
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FINAL JEOPARDY
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• Glaciers in New York

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• According to the Earth Science Reference Tables
  during what Period was the last advance and
  retreat of continental ice in New York?

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• Quaternary