Name: ate: 1. The large waterfall at Niagara Falls, New York, was originally located at the Niagara Escarpment. Which term best describes an escarpment? 4. The photograph below shows a sandstone butte in an arid region. A. U-shaped valley B. V-shaped valley. cliff. drumlin Which agents of erosion are currently changing the appearance of this butte? 2. Trees growing on the edge of a river s meander are most likely to fall into the river due to A. deposition on the inside of the meander B. deposition on the outside of the meander. erosion on the inside of the meander A. glaciers and mass movement B. wave action and running water. wind and mass movement. running water and glaciers. erosion on the outside of the meander 3. What is the approximate minimum stream velocity needed to keep a 6.4-cm-diameter particle in motion? A. 10 cm/s B. 50 cm/s. 100 cm/s. 200 cm/s page 1
5. The block diagram below shows part of a meandering stream. Line XY shows the location of a stream cross section. 6. The photograph below shows a valley. Which agent of erosion most likely produced this valley s shape? Which cross section best represents the shape of the stream channel at line XY? A. blowing wind B. ocean waves. moving ice. running water A. B. 7. Sediment is deposited in a river delta because the A. velocity of the river decreases. B. force of gravity decreases. volume of the river increases. gradient of the river increases. 8. Which mineral would most likely become rounded at the fastest rate when tumbled along a stream bottom? A. garnet B. pyroxene. plagioclase feldspar. selenite gypsum page 2
9. Sandstone, limestone, and conglomerate cobbles are found in a streambed in New York State where the surrounding bedrock is composed of shales and siltstones. The most likely explanation for the presence of these cobbles is that they were A. weathered from the surrounding bedrock 12. Which process occurs when water vapor moves out of the leaves of a tree into the atmosphere? A. condensation B. infiltration. runoff. transpiration B. formed when shale and siltstone bedrock were eroded. transported to this area from another region. metamorphosed from shale and siltstone 10. Pieces of bedrock material that are broken from a cliff and deposited by a landslide at the base of the cliff are best described as A. rounded and sorted B. rounded and unsorted. angular and sorted. angular and unsorted 13. In general, the probability of flooding decreases when there is an increase in the amount of A. precipitation B. infiltration. runoff. snow melt 11. The narrow, sandy, barrier islands in the ocean along the south coast of Long Island were deposited by A. wind B. streams. glacial ice. wave action page 3
14. Base your answer(s) to the following question(s) on the diagram below, which shows a model of the water cycle. Letters A through F represent some processes of the water cycle. Letter X indicates the top of the underground zone that is saturated with water. The Water ycle 16. Which event is an example of chemical weathering? A. rocks falling off the face of a steep cliff B. feldspar in granite being crushed into clay-sized particles. water freezing in cracks in a roadside outcrop. acid rain reacting with limestone bedrock 17. The diagram below shows an outcrop of different layers of sandstone in a region receiving heavy rainfall. What does letter X represent? A. the water table B. a floodplain. sea level. impermeable rock Which sandstone layer appears to be the least resistant to weathering? 15. Two streams, A and B, carry the same volume of water, but stream A has a greater velocity. The most likely cause of this greater velocity would be that stream A A. A B. B.. A. has more tributaries B. has a wider streambed. flows down a steeper slope. travels over less resistant bedrock 18. Which characteristic would most likely remain constant when a limestone cobble is subjected to extensive abrasion? A. shape B. mass. volume. composition page 4
19. Photographs A and B below show two different valleys. Photograph A Photograph B 20. Which agent of erosion is most likely responsible for the deposition of sandbars along ocean shorelines? A. glaciers B. mass movement. wave action. wind action Which list best identifies the agent of erosion that primarily determined the shape of each valley? A. photograph A glacier; photograph B river B. photograph A river; photograph B glacier. both photographs river. both photographs glacier page 5
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