Exam 4

Navigation » List of Schools » Pierce College » Geography » Geog 001 – Physical Geography » Spring 2022 » Exam 4

Need help with your exam preparation?

Existing Quiz Clients Login here

Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:

Try The Exam

Question #1

The smallest streams with no tributaries are called

A Ephemeral streams

B Creeks

C Secondary streams

D First order streams

Question #2

The angle of repose is:

A Steepest angle assumed by loose material on a slow without downslope movement

B Not depended on the size of the sediment or rock particle

C An unknown variable in mass movement

D The angle at which a slope is the most stable

Question #3

A mid-oceanic ridge (rift) can be found in an area where two tectonic plates

A Diverge

B Cannot tell for sure

C Slide past each other

D Converge

Question #4

A flow is characterized by a higher moisture content compared to a fall or a slide

A FALSE

B TRUE

Question #5

Which is an example of a native element

A Granite

B Gold

C Limestone

D None of the above

Question #6

What happens when two continental plates collide:

A Absolutely nothing

B We can’t tell for sure

C An oceanic trench forms

D A tall mountain range develops, such as the Himalayas

Question #7

Tectonism or diastrophism consists of

A None of these

B Volcanic eruptions

C Folding and faulting of existing rock formations

D Plate boundary activity only

Question #8

Of the following climates, which is most likely to experience the fastest weathering

A Warm and dry

B Very hot and very dry

C Very cold and dry

D Warm and wet

Question #9

A drainage divide is a higher land area which separates drainage basins or watersheds

A TRUE

B FALSE

Question #10

The center of fault motion during an earthquake is known as

A The focus

B The magnitude

C The epicenter

D The wave

Question #11

Streams that flow only during and immediately after rain are called

A Ephemeral

B Intermittent

C Temporary

D Perennial

Question #12

Which of the following is NOT a type of plate boundary

A Convergent

B Transform

C Hot spot

D Divergent

Question #13

The process that increases a stream’s downcutting ability is called

A Oxbow lake

B Stream competence

C Stream rejuvenation

D Stream capacity

Question #14

Urbanization has absolutely no impact on flooding patterns

A FALSE

B TRUE

Question #15

The type of sedimentary rock formed out of preexisting rock pieces (gravel, sand, etc.) is called

A Organic

B Chemical

C Clastic

D Foliated

Question #16

Alluvium is a term that describes:

A Clay, silt, gravel, and sand deposited by running water

B Rocks and boulders carried in the water

C All of these

D A type of stream pattern

E None of these

Question #17

Smaller streams that are joining with a larger stream within a watershed are called

A Tributaries

B Small streams

C None of these

D Useless

Question #18

The layer of the mantle in which rocks are plastic, fluid, and easily deformed is called

A The lower mantle

B The crust

C The lithosphere

D The asthenosphere

Question #19

Which of the following is not contained within a stream load

A Suspended load

B Heavy load

C Dissolved load

D Bedload

Question #20

The branch of geography that investigates the origin, evolution, and distribution of surface landforms is:

A Geomorphology

B Biogeography

C Climatology

D GIS

Question #21

Which of the following is a hazard commonly associated with volcanic eruptions?

A All of these

B Pyroclastic material

C Lahar

D Toxic gas plumes

Question #22

The process of adjustment of the Earth’s crust due to changes in the load on top of it is called

A Contact metamorphism

B Plate tectonics

C Isostasy

D Continental drift

Question #23

The following is NOT true about metamorphic rocks:

A They can be separated in two categories: intrusive and extrusive

B They form when other rocks are subjected to intense heat and/or pressure

C They can be separated in two categories: foliated and non-foliated

D They can form out of any type of rock under the right conditions (heat and/or pressure present)

Question #24

All rocks, no matter what kind they are, weather at exactly the same rate.

A TRUE

B FALSE

Question #25

Stream discharge is measured as

A Volume only

B Volume per surface

C Speed and time

D Volume per time

Question #26

A drainage pattern resembling the branches of a tree is called

A Radial

B Dendritic

C Random

D Trellis

Question #27

Deposition is likely to occur when the stream flow speed or water volume decreases

A FALSE

B TRUE

Question #28

Horst and Graben is a landscape associated with

A Volcanism

B Mass wasting

C Faulting

D None of the above

Question #29

Denudation is the process of wearing away or rearranging existing landforms

A FALSE

B TRUE

Question #30

The depositional landform at a mouth of a river is called

A Cut bank

B Oxbow lake

C Delta

D None of the above

Question #31

The first person who proposed the theory of plate tectonics is:

A Alexander the Great

B Albert Einstein

C Alfred Wegener

D James Vaughan

Question #32

Gentle sloped volcanoes build by the lengthy outpour of very fluid lave are called

A Can’t tell for sure

B Shield volcanoes

C Composite volcanoes

D Stratovolcanoes

Question #33

Which of the following are features that can be found in a meandering stream channel

A Oxbow lakes

B All of these

C Cut banks

D Point bars

Question #34

Earthquakes used to be very difficult to predict in the past, but luckily now we can tell for sure when and where an earthquake will take place, and exactly how strong it will be.

A TRUE

B FALSE

Question #35

The ocean floor is made mostly out of

A Can’t know for sure

B Limestone

C Basalt

D Granite

Question #36

When an oceanic and a continental plate converge the following takes place:

A The continental plates moves right passed the continental plate like nothing happened

B We cannot tell for sure, it all depends on the circumstances

C The less dense continental plate is subducted under the denser oceanic plate

D The denser oceanic plate is subducted under the less dense continental plate

Question #37

The following is (are) true about the Earth’s Mantle:

A All of these are true about the Mantle

B Ends with the MohoroviÄ iÄ (MOHO) discontinuity which separates it from the curst

C It has three distinct layers

D Sits between the outer core and the crust

Question #38

Which of the following is not a drainage pattern?

A Dendritic

B Trellis

C Radial

D Random

Question #39

What are the two types of geomorphic processes?

A Strong and weak

B There is only one type of geomorphic process

C Internal and external

D Foliated and nonfoliated

Question #40

Which of the following is NOT a stage within the denudation process?

A Uplfit

B Mass Wasting

C Weathering

D Erosion

Question #41

Which type of mass movement are we most likely to witness in the tundra, where the ground below a certain depth is permanently frozen

A Solifluction

B Cree

C Landslide

D Mudflow

Try The Exam

Fresh Grad Lands Job as Real Estate Agent With Help from Professional Writers

Need help with your exam preparation?

Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:

Christian S.

Tyra

Linda

Manush

We accept payment