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1. What is weathering? 6. What impact does weathering have on soil
a. A process that breaks down rocks into smaller formation?
pieces a. Chemical weathering adds helpful chemicals to the
b. A shift in weather patterns soil
c. The process by which mountains are formed b. Rocks are broken down into smaller pieces, and
d. The process by which the seasons change finally into sediment
c. Mechanical weathering adds ice to the soil, which
2. How might a weathered mountain appear
turns into water
different from an unweathered mountain?
d. Volcanic eruptions contribute metamorphic rocks to
a. The weathered mountain would be taller the soil
b. The weathered mountain would appear rounder in
shape 7. What types of rocks are formed by weathering?
c. The weathered mountain would appear more a. Metamorphic rocks
jagged b. Igneous rocks
d. The weathered mountain would contain fewer trees c. Sedimentary rocks
d. Volcanic rocks
3. What can you infer about ice
from the information 8. How long does the weathering process take?
presented in the movie? a. A few days
b. No more than a month
a. It usually causes chemical weathering c. Exactly one year
b. It expands as it freezes d. Years and years
c. It barely causes weathering at all 9. Carbonic acid is a mixture of:
d. It does not exert pressure on rocks
a. Water and carbon dioxide
4. How is mechanical weathering different from b. Calcite and quartz
chemical weathering? c. Oxygen and hydrogen
d. Water and limestone
a. Chemical weathering happens over a much shorter
time frame than mechanical weathering 10. What process hollows out
b. Chemical weathering occurs in the tropics; limestone caves?
mechanical weathering occurs in temperate climates
c. Chemical weathering occurs in mountains;
mechanical weathering occurs on flat surfaces
d. Chemical weathering changes the chemical a. Mechanical weathering
composition of materials; mechanical weathering does b. Chemical weathering
not c. Spatial weathering
d. Cave weathering
5. What might cause mechanical weathering?
a. Acid rain
b. Violent earthquakes
c. Growing plants and expanding ice
d. Volcanic eruptions