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Physical Geography: The Global Environment, Second Edition - Unit 28

Instructions: For each question, click on the radio button beside your answer. When you have completed the entire quiz, click the Submit my answers button at the bottom of the page to receive your results.

Question 1:


a) weathering
b) erosion
c) mass movement
d) mountain building
e) All are gradational processes.

Question 2:


a) running water
b) wind
c) plant roots
d) glaciers
e) coastal waves

Question 3:


a) landscape
b) region
c) landmass
d) platform
e) landform cluster

Question 4:


a) erosion
b) slope process
c) weathering
d) aggradation
e) slumping

Question 5:


a) Running water
b) Mass movement
c) Weathering
d) Deposition
e) Sublimation

Question 6:


a) Dune
b) A mountain range
c) A sinkhole
d) A single valley
e) A solitary mountain

Question 7:


a) erosion
b) denudation
c) gravity
d) weathering
e) avalanches

Question 8:


a) glaciation
b) bioturbation
c) erosion
d) weathering
e) gravity

Question 9:


a) Waves
b) Wind
c) Glaciers
d) Streams
e) Sun

Question 10:


a) 4 million
b) 40 trillion
c) 4 billion
d) 40 billion
e) 400 million

Question 11:


a) Proterozoic
b) Cenozoic
c) Mesozoic
d) Paleozoic
e) Jurassic

Question 12:


a) Paleoproterozoic
b) Cambrian
c) Devonian
d) Jurassic
e) Silurian

Question 13:


a) North
b) South
c) East
d) West
e) North–east

Question 14:


a) erosion
b) water
c) wind
d) gravity
e) aggradation

Question 15:


a) loosened rock
b) chemical action
c) Sun
d) weathering
e) slope process

Question 16:


a) True
b) False

Question 17:


a) True
b) False

Question 18:


a) True
b) False

Question 19:


a) True
b) False

Question 20:


a) True
b) False

Question 21:


a) True
b) False