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- 1. Multiple Choice
Mechanical weathering is
a process where rocks break down into smaller sediments and don't change chemically.
a process where rocks break down and change chemically into sediments.
a process where sediments are transported to another location.
a process where sediments are layed down.
- 2. Multiple Choice
Chemical weathering is more common in
cool and damp climates
cold and dry climates
warm and dry climates
warm and moist climates
- 3. Multiple Choice
Transportation of sediments to new locations is also called
deposition.
compaction.
erosion.
lithification.
- 4. Multiple Choice
Which of the following are agents of both weathering and erosion can, and has moved the largest materials the greatest distance?
gravity
wind
running water
glaciers
- 5. Multiple Choice
Deposition most commonly occurs
when sediments are being transported.
when sediments in a water body slow to a point where the settle out of water.
on land where you have the lowest point.
- 6. Multiple Choice
The process that occurs as successive layers of sediment are deposited in a basin is called
lithification
cementation
erosion
weathering
- 7. Multiple Choice
As layers of sediments get deposited an lithified, the sediment clasts in the lower layers become
eroded
weathered
compacted
deposited
- 8. Multiple Choice
The process where ground water in compacted sediments dissolves minerals and glues them together is called
compaction
cementation
chemical weathering
- 9. Multiple Choice
Which of the following types of sedimentary cement will fizz in acid?
Calcium Carbonate
Silicate
Iron oxide
- 10. Multiple Choice
A sign that a sediment clast has been transported a long ways from its parent rock would be
that its large and angular.
that its small and angular.
that its small and rounded.
that its large and rounded.
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