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This set of Engineering Geology Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on “Geological Work of
Atmosphere-01”.
Explanation: Weathering is defined as, a natural process of in-situ mechanical disintegration and or chemical
decomposition of the rocks of the crust of the Earth by certain physical and chemical agencies of the atmosphere.
It is a very slow process.
Answer: a
Explanation: Carbonation is a chemical weathering process whereas the rest viz., temperature variation,
unloading, insolation are processes of mechanical weathering.
Answer: d
Explanation: It is said that, water on freezing undergoes an increase in its volume by about ten per cent. This is
expansion is accompanied by exertion of pressure.
Answer: c
Explanation: The frost formed fragments are angular, sub angular, irregular in outline and remain spread over the
parent rock having flat surface or flat slopes. Spherical form or outline of rock doesn’t come into picture here.
Answer: d
Explanation: If the original surface forms a significant slope, as is commonly the case in the hilly and4/11
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slope under the influence of gravity. Finally, the fragments accumulate at the base as heaps commonly called as
Scree deposits.
Answer: c
Explanation: The slopes covered by frost formed scree are often referred to as Talus slopes.
Answer: b
Explanation: Exudation is a process similar to frost action but in this case disintegration takes place due to the
formation of sodium chloride etc., within the cavities of rocks thereby causing disintegration. This process is seen
in good measure in porous rocks near seashore.
8. The stress developed in the top layers of the rocks which disintegrate due to repeated variations in temperatures
is________
a) Tensile stress
b) Compressive stress
c) Shear stress
d) Bending stress
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Answer: a
Explanation: Repeated variations in temperature experienced by a body of rock gradually break it into smaller
pieces, especially in the top layers, by development of tensile stresses developing from alternate expansion and
contraction.
Explanation: The internal structure of the rock is not affected due to the process of exfoliation. The phenomenon
of peeling off occurs only in the layered or thick rocks and is accompanied by chemical weathering, mostly near
the margins and develop curved surfaces. So basically surface is affected and not the internal structure.
10. The large-scale development of fracturing in confined rock masses occurs under which process?
a) Frost action
b) Unloading
c) Unfolding
d) Insolation
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Answer: The process of mechanical weathering where large-scale development of fracturing in confined rock
masses is attributed to removal of the overlying rock cover due to prolonged erosional work of other agencies is
called unloading.
11. The formation of sheets and subsequently joints occurs in which of the following processes?
a) Frost action
b) Insolation
c) Flow of water
d) Unloading
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Answer: d
Explanation: The rock masses under the effect of unloading remain confined from sides but due to relief of
pressure from above, they expand upwards; consequently joints develop in them parallel to the uncovered
surface dividing them into sheets.
12. Scree deposits can occur in hilly regions only. State true or false.
a) True
b) False
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Answer: a
Explanation: The above statement is true because, for scree deposits to be formed, the rock fragments have to
heave up and also roll down the slope under the influence of gravity.
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a) Weathered rock
b) Parent rock
c) Rolled down rock
d) Powdered rock
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Answer: b
Explanation: The part labelled is the parent rock and is yet to undergo weathering. It is the solid rock mass and
the other parts above and beside the parent rock are called the weathered rocks.
14. In Kara Qum desert, the rocks are exposed to what temperatures in summer and winter respectively?
a) 70-80° C and -10° C
b) 20-30° C and -1° C
c) 40-50° C and 0° C
d) 25-35° C and -3° C
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Answer: a
Explanation: Studies have shown that in desert like Kara Qum, rocks are exposed to as high temperatures as 70-
80° C in summer and are then cooled down to -10° C in winter. Such repeated variations in temperature
experienced by a body of rock gradually break it into smaller pieces.
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