Unit 33 | Student Practice Quizzes | Physical Geography: The Global Environment, Second Edition

Question 1:

Which of the following factors does not affect fluvial erosion?
a) Climate
b) Geologic structure
c) Bedrock type (lithology)
d) Pressure gradients
e) All of these factors affect fluvial erosion.

Question 2:

A fault scarp that has been modified by erosion is called a ________.
a) fault-line scarp
b) fault trace
c) cuesta
d) hogback
e) talus cone

Question 3:

Stream erosion may produce a characteristic landscape where the layers form a circular pattern in ________.
a) mesas
b) cuestas
c) domes
d) hogbacks
e) plateaus

Question 4:

Which of the following is not a drainage pattern?
a) Annular
b) Dendritic
c) Trellis
d) Radial
e) Circumflected

Question 5:

A peneplain is a(n) area that is ________.
a) concave
b) convex
c) superimposed
d) flattened
e) uplifted

Question 6:

In Davis’ theory of erosion, the most prominent, not-yet eroded remnants are termed ________.
a) peneplains
b) monadnocks
c) interfluves
d) pediplanes
e) hogbacks

Question 7:

The ________ drainage pattern resembles the branching of a tree.
a) rectangular
b) deranged
c) trellis
d) radial
e) dendritic

Question 8:

In a wetland, a drainage patterns tend to be ________.
a) natural levees
b) tilted sedimentary rock layers
c) carboniferous sandstone
d) horizontal layers of volcanic rocks
e) fractured basalt

Question 9:

In a wetland, a drainage patterns tend to be ________.
a) dendritic
b) radial
c) trellis
d) braided
e) deranged

Question 10:

The process by which one stream loses a major portion of its headwaters to another stream is called ________.
a) stream larceny
b) stream theft
c) stream piracy
d) perifluvial capture
e) None of the above.

Question 11:

River channels which were abandoned by a captured stream are now sometimes seen as ________.
a) water gaps
b) hanging valleys
c) nick points
d) wind gaps
e) None of the above.

Question 12:

The gently sloping rock surface that forms at the foot of a slope is called ________.
a) a playa
b) a graben
c) pediment
d) stratum
e) interfluves

Question 13:

Hard flat sills created by volcanic eruptions are called ________.
a) playas
b) pediments
c) bajadas
d) mesas
e) inselbergs

Question 14:

A drainage pattern that most often develops on volcanic cones is termed ________.
a) radial
b) rectangular
c) longitudinal
d) graded
e) deranged

Question 15:

Streams that flow through mountains are called ________.
a) antecedent streams
b) erosional streams
c) monadnocks
d) pediplains
e) pediment plains

Question 16:

Ridges that have resistant layers facing inward on the anticline and outward on the syncline are called zigzag ridges.
a) True
b) False

Question 17:

Trellis drainage often occurs on parallel folded or dipped sedimentary rocks.
a) True
b) False

Question 18:

Parallel retreat refers to theory that slopes wear backwards while maintaining the same angles.
a) True
b) False

Question 19:

Radial drainage is typical of flat-lying sedimentary rocks.
a) True
b) False

Question 20:

An antecedent river forms after the ridge it cuts through.
a) True
b) False

Question 21:

Stream capture refers to one river capturing a portion of another stream.
a) True
b) False

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Physical Geography: The Global Environment, Second Edition - Unit 33