Some examples from this set of practice questions
1.
The most widespread and slowest form of mass wasting is?
Answer: creep
2.
Solifluction mass wasting is most common where?
Answer: In areas of permafrost
3.
The most common hazard in mountainous areas where roads have been built by blasting steep bedrock is?
Answer: Rockfalls
4.
For straight stretches of a river, the water velocity is greatest where?
Answer: in the center of the channel and at the surface
5.
The most common form of river drainage is?
Answer: Dendritic
6.
The kind of drainage that tends to occur after the retreat of a glacier at the end of an Ice Age is?
Answer: Deranged
7.
Sediment transported and deposited by running water known as?
Answer: Alluvium
8.
A continental divide is?
Answer: a drainage divide on a continent such that the drainage basin on one side of the divide feeds into one ocean or sea, and the basin on the other side either feeds into a different ocean or sea
9.
What forms the continental divide of the United States?
Answer: The Rocky Mountains
10.
What forms the continental divide of South America?
Answer: The Andes
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