Lab: Modeling Water Erosion — Unit test

Question 1

How do oxbow lakes form?

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Rivers wear away banks until the bank is broken and the river flows straight.

Question 2

The diagram shows two water molecules. What does the dotted line between the water molecules represent?

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a hydrogen bond

Question 3

Study this image of lithospheric plates.

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Pacific, Eurasian, and African

Question 4

Which type of deposition creates sandbars?

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wave

Question 5

Which action would best help prevent groundwater erosion?

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building drains with outlets

Question 6

Which continents contain folded mountains that match up to form one continuous mountain chain, serving as evidence that they once belonged to one landmass called Pangaea?

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South America and Africa

Question 7

Sublimation is the opposite of deposition just as evaporation is the opposite of

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condensation

Question 8

What would happen to life on Earth if all the liquid fresh water were used up?

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Life could no longer exist on Earth.

Question 9

What happened to the giant landmass that Wegener described?

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The pieces broke apart and drifted away from one another over time.

Question 10

Which coal field location is related to coal fields in the United States and supports the theory of continental drift?

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Europe

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