Unit Test — Unit test

Question 1

How do mountains influence climate?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

They affect rainfall by creating a rain shadow.

Question 2

What area would most likely experience the greatest amount of natural erosion?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

desert

Question 3

Soil horizons are defined by physical features.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

T

Question 4

Which layer of soil is most likely of greatest importance to plant growth?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

A (topsoil)

Question 5

Which of the following is an aspect of the elastic rebound theory?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

Energy built up when plates try to get past each other is released when plates break free.

Question 6

What characteristic is shared by both inceptisols and entisols, the soils of flood plains?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

Both are young and only beginning to develop horizons and a soil profile.

Question 7

Which of the following is not a defining characteristic of soil?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

humidity

Question 8

Which of the following is a way that humans speed up the process of erosion?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

all of the above

Question 9

There is no direct way to reduce soil compaction caused by agricultural practices.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

F

Question 10

Minerals are mined both at the Earth’s surface and below it.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

T

Unit Test — Unit test Answers