Question 1
2 out of 2 points
Choose the largest landslide in terms of volume
Selected
Answer:
May 1980, Mount St.
Helens
Question 2
2 out of 2 points
Tufa and travertine are types of
Selected
Answer:
limesto
ne
Question 3
2 out of 2 points
All of these mass movement processes occurred during the 1980 eruption of Mount St.
Helens except
Selected
Answer:
talus
creep
Question 4
2 out of 2 points
A major method by which material gets delivered to the Colorado River in the Grand
Canyon is
Selected
Answer:
debris
flow
Question 5
2 out of 2 points
The amount of empty space in a rock suitable for water storage is called
Selected
Answer:
porosit
y
Question 6
2 out of 2 points
A stream with the most numerous numbers of bars and channels would be a _____
stream.
Selected
Answer:
braide
d
Question 7
2 out of 2 points
Perhaps the world’s greatest modern natural disaster (in terms of lives lost) was
Selected
Answer:
1931 Chinese
flooding
Question 8
2 out of 2 points
What caused the formation of Lake Missoula?
Selected
Answer:
glaciers blocking the Clark Fork
River
Question 9
2 out of 2 points
A hillside in Alabama with bent tree trunks and cock-eyed tomb stones and fence posts is
probably experiencing
Selected
Answer:
soil
creep
Question 10
2 out of 2 points
The exposed soil and rock cliff face that results from some types of mass movements is
called a _______________
Selected
Answer:
scar
p
Question 11
2 out of 2 points
After Noah’s Flood, all of the following would have contributed to increased rates of mass
wasting except
Selected
Answer:
new growth of vegetation, like
grass
Question 12
2 out of 2 points
If your house is built on a hillside susceptible to past mass wasting events, the most
important thing you could do reduce the risk of further movement would be
Selected
Answer:
install good
drainage
Question 13
0 out of 2 points
Large alcoves are often produced on cliff faces by
Selected
Answer:
exfoliati
on
Question 14
2 out of 2 points
An extremely thick glacier develops on an island and then suddenly melts. An observer
on the island would notice relative sea level ____ due to isostatic rebound.
Selected
Answer:
dramatically fall through
time
Question 15
2 out of 2 points
It is noticed that a particular steep hillside has a number of trees with curved tree trunks
near their base. The hillside is experiencing
Selected
Answer:
soil
creep
Question 16
2 out of 2 points
Which soil horizon contains a mixture of organic material and minerals?
Selected
Answer:
“A
”
Question 17
2 out of 2 points
Bretz proposed all of the following as evidence for a massive flood forming the Channeled
Scabland except
Selected
Answer:
the damming and failure of a dam blocking the
Columbia River
Question 18
2 out of 2 points
The competence of a stream is affected by everything except
Selected
Answer:
water
temperature
Question 19
2 out of 2 points
Abundant rainfall produces soils with many nutrients.
Selected
Answer:
Fals
e
Question 20
2 out of 2 points
Cut banks can often be found on the outsides of meaner bends.
Selected
Answer:
Tru
e
Question 21
2 out of 2 points
Limestones are dissolved in the presence of carbonic acid.
Selected
Answer:
Tru
e
Question 22
2 out of 2 points
The river that left the Garden of Eden in Genesis 2 split into four separate rivers.
Selected
Answer:
Tru
e
Question 23
2 out of 2 points
One of the processes involved in solifluction is the summer melting of frozen moisture in
the upper few feet of soil.
Selected
Answer:
Tru
e
Question 24
2 out of 2 points
Volcanic settings are the only places that mudflows can develop.
Selected
Answer:
Fals
e
Question 25
2 out of 2 points
Scripture identifies the rock that Moses struck, and subsequently produced water, as
Christ.
Selected
Answer:
Tru
e
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