1) The most recent glacial advance reached its maximum around ago. a) 400,000 ye
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1) The most recent glacial advance reached its maximum around ago.
a) 400,000 years, b) 50,000 years, c) 20,000 years, d) 800,000 years ago, e) 1 million years ago
2)Throughout parts of the last 3 million years, known as the , glaciers covered much of North America
a) Pleistocene Epoch, b)Protozoic Era c) Paleogene Era, d)Cenozoic Epoch, e) Mesozoic Era
3) It is believed that Long Island and Cape Cod are the tops of from past glaciations.
a) outwash plains b) alluvium c) terminal moraines d) tallons eesker
4) Which of the following statements is not true of glaciers?
a) The cause of glaciers shrinking is climatic warming, b) Greenland and Antarctica have two of the worlds largest ice masses, c) In Greenland, there has been substantial thickening of glaciers near the margins of the island. d) Scientists have monitored the largest ice masses in the world particularly intensely because of their potential effects on global sea level, e) For the past 200 years, most of the glaciers of the world have been shrinking
5) When water flows across the land, it carries small particles of rock with it. This movement of material in a stream is called .
a) riparian transport, b) sediment transport, c) alluvial movement, d) stream deposit movement, e) debris movement
6) Which of the following is the most common cause of soil erosion?
a) human movement, b)ice, c) wind, d) rainfall, e) none of the answer choices are correct
7)When rocks are broken up by physical force, we term that weathering.
a) isostatic, b) physical, c) chemical, d) biological, e)natural
8) The San Andreas Fault is a typical example of this type of plate boundary.
a) transform, b) divergence, c) subduction, d) convergence e) none of the answer choices are correct.
9) Two hundred million years ago Earths continents were all joined in one supercontinent known as .
a) Mantle, b)Gondwanaland, c) SuperAfrica, d) Pangaea eLaurasia
10)Layers of tell us about the rivers and seas in which the sediment accumulated.
a) igneous rocks, b)volcanic ash, c) sedimentary rocks, d) metamorphic rocks, e) none of these answer choices are correct.
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1) The most recent glacial advance reached its maximum around ago.
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3) c) terminal moraines
5) b) sediment transport
6) d) rainfall
most common cause of soil erosion is Intensity and amount of rainfall, Ground Slope, Deforestation, etc
7) b) physical
9) d) Pangaea eLaurasia
10) c) sedimentary rocks
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