33. Earthquake shaking, ocean waves, and heavy rain tend to do this. A) strength

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33. Earthquake shaking, ocean waves, and heavy rain tend to do this. A) strengthen slopes B) C) destabilize slopes 34. An example of a rain shadow desert. A) Columbia Plateau B) Antarctica C) Africa 35 Basal drag, slab pull, and gravitational sliding. A) stoping B) dynamo C) mine collapses D) driving forces 36 The void space between grains in a sandstone. A) grain space B) primary porosity C) secondary porosity 37. Right lateral motion A) normal B) reverse C) sinistral D) exotic E) dextral 38. A deposit at the exit of a canyon onto a dry flatter plain. A) delta B) estruary C) alluvial fan 39 Common at base of mountain ranges in arid terrain A) alluvial fans B) deltas C) terminal moraines 40. An outcropping of the midoceanic ridge. A) Greenland B) Montana C)Australia D) Iceland 41. This common sediment is very porous but not permeable. A) sand B) clay C) silt D) granite 42. Regional compression can cause this. A) volcanoes B) lithification C) gully erosion D) playation E) folding 43. Example of a features that can form a local base level. A) bar B) meander C) lake 44. Areas that receive less than 10 inches of rain annually. A) deserts B) plains C) guyots D) peneplains 45. A conservative plate boundary. A) convergent B) divergent C) subducting D transform 46 . About 97 % percent of Earth's H2O. A) glacial water B) salt water C) fresh water D) cloud water 47. Terranes in present North America actually formed in the tropical Pacific. A) erotic B) erosional C) erratic D) platonic E) exotic 48. Mass movement on a curved failure surface. A) earth flow B) rock slide C) slump 49. Small crests and troughs form on sand surfaces exposed to the wind. A) Ripples B) Rips C) Dunes D) Trunks 50 A tectonic regime that is being sheared. A) compressional B) extensional C) reversible D) strike-slip 51. The unsaturated zone is also known by this name. A) phreatic B) vadose C) saturated D) artesian E) negated 52. The exposed part of the North American craton. A) Florida B) Yellowstone C) Death Valley D) Missouri E) Canadian shield 53 Rapid downslope movement of snow, ice, and debris. A) earth flow B) mudflow C) avalanche 54 . A geological landform consisting of column of rock in the sea near a coast. A) Stack B) Arch C) Cave D) Pediment 55. The Alps, Japan, Seattle, Portland, Peru Coast, Aleutions etc. A) divergent boundaries B) transforms C) ridges D) convergent boundaries 56. A water well in which water rises upward from the aquifer without pumping. A) flooding B) artesian C) aquiferous D) wateriferous 57. A type of fault as a result of compression. A) anticlinal B) synclinal C) normal D) abnormal E) reverse 58 . Stream pattern over jointed rocks. A) dendritic B) trellis C) rectangular D) inverted 59 Example of a montane desert. A) Mongolian Plateau B) Columbia Plateau C) Antarctica D) Sahara 60. An anticline A) downfold B) reverse fold C) side fold D) upfold

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33. C) Destabilize slope.

34. C) Africa

35. D) Driving forces.

36. B) Primary porosity.

37. E) Dextral

38. C) Alluvial fan

39. A) Alluvial fans

40. D) Iceland

41. B) Clay

42. E) Folding

43. C) Lake

44. A) Deserts

45. D) Transform

46. B) Salt water

47. E) Exotic

48. C) Slump

49. A) Ripples.

50. D) Strike-slip

51. B) Vadose

52. E) Canadian Shield

53. C) Avalanche

54. A) Stack

55. D) Convergent boundaries.

56. B) Artesian

57. E) Reverse

58. C) Rectangular.

59. A) Mongolian Plateau

60. D) Upfold.

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