What is anthropogenic mass movement?
When rocks are moving along the ocean bed
When there is a landslide
Human disturbance of a slope
When flows are moving fast
What are the four classes of mass movement?
Slides down, basalt movement, shift movement, quartz movement
Fall, slide, flow, and creep movement
Road, surface, climb and dissolve movement
Alpha patterns and fast slope movement
Name of the science that studies origin, evolution, and spatial distribution of landforms?
Geomorphology
Geography
Hydrology
Meteorology
In order for limestone to develop into Karat topography, it must contain what % calcium carbonate?
50 %
80%
10%
40%
Chemical weathering always involves the presence of
Oil
Bacteria
Sand
Water
Chemical weathering is the ___________of rock with chemical alterations to the rock.
disintegration
Evaluation
Integration
Surface
What is known as the angle of repose?
Incline where gravity does not pull.
Sediments on slope remain at rest at the maximum incline.
Regolith
Free face
What type of a rock is a Marble rock?
Sedimentary
Igneous
Metamophic
Porphyritic
If material is to move down slope, it must overcome the force of ____?
Inertial resistance of the material only
Inertial resistance to none of material
friction and cohesion of particles
friction, cohesion of particles, and inertial resistanc
Erosion transport materials to different locations by _______?
Waves, ice, wind, gravity, water, and air
Water, wind, gravity, ice and waves
Air, gravity, ice, snow, waves
Water, gravity
A slope whose strength exceeds the combined force of gravity is considered what?
Unstable
Wavering
Stable
Waxing
What does the physical and chemical processes refers to?
Weathering
Parent Rock
Rock Information
Deposited downslope
What is joints?
Differential weathering
Fractures in rocks that occur without displacement.
Affect weathering temperature
Surface area of rock exposed toweathering
Fractures in rocks that occur without displacement
Surface area of rock exposed to weathering.
Physical weathering caused by crystallization help to form_______?
Sandstone and pressure
Niche in the canyon wall
Slabs of rocks
Granite
What is Hydrolysis?
Minerals chemically react with water
Sharpe edge corrosion
Hydration
When clay and silica mix together
How does oxidation occur?
When metallic elements combine w/oxygen to form oxides
when rock is susceptible
When water combines with rock
Rusty colors shown on the surface of some rocks
What makes a rock intrusive ?
Fragments of eroded rocks
Presence of large crystals and its cooling process.
Ocean and lakes processes
From volcanic activity
What is a landslide?
Rapid movement of bedrock not saturated with moisture
Frequent clay movement
A lake of gravel
A warning overlap
What is Frost action?
Frozen rocks form a talus slope
When freezing water expands into ice
When rock falls into freezing water
When frozen rocks falls into the ocean
List 1 factors that influence weather?
Rock composition
Joining
Displacement
Angle of repose
Is the texture of a marble rock round in structure with semi pascal colors ?
Does the characteristics of a rock indicates whether or not its a clatic or nonclasticv rock?
