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Accuracy - Answer the closeness of observations, computations, or estimates to the true values or to values accepted as being true. Aerial - Answer Of, or pertaining to, or occuring in the air or atmopshere algorithm - Answer a statement of the steps to be followed in the solution of a problem; may be in the form of a word description, an explanatory note, or a labeled diagram or flowchart. Alluvium - Answer any material deposited by running water; the soil material of floodplains and a...

Geology Exam Questions With Answers Diagenesis refers to ________. physical and chemical alterations, including compaction and cementation, that occur as sediment is transformed into rock Pulling a block of clay apart, resulting in the middle portion thinning and sinking, is an adequate analogy for ________. rift basins and subsidence Lithified detritus (breakdown products of preexisting rocks) forms which kind of sedimentary rock? clastic Cemented shells of marine organisms f...

Accuracy - ANSWERthe closeness of observations, computations, or estimates to the true values or to values accepted as being true. Aerial - ANSWEROf, or pertaining to, or occuring in the air or atmopshere algorithm - ANSWERa statement of the steps to be followed in the solution of a problem; may be in the form of a word description, an explanatory note, or a labeled diagram or flowchart. Alluvium - ANSWERany material deposited by running water; the soil material of floodplains and alluv...

Geography Grade 12 - Summary: Geomorphology - Fluvial Includes: - River systems - Drainage basin & catchment area - Features of a drainage basin - South African watersheds - Surface runoff and groundwater - Factors affecting surface runoff - Water table - Types of rivers & examples in SA - Drainage patterns - patterns that develop independently of the rock structure or gradient & other patterns - Drainage density & texture & factors - Stream order - Laminar and Turbulent flow - Lo...

Attempt History Attempt Time Score LATEST Attempt 1 19 minutes 1.6 out of 1.6 Score for this quiz: 1.6 out of 1.6 Submitted Feb 26 at 2:59am This attempt took 19 minutes. This is a brief quiz about the lecture on fluvial (river) landforms. Ques 0.4 / 0.4 pts tion 1 The term grade refers to a stream's longitudinal profile that is concave upward -- steepest in the headwaters with a lower slope as the stream reaches the ocean. Rivers rarely reach this graded condition, because there are...

PHSC 21 0 QUIZ 5 QUESTIO N 1 A stream that flows in a desert and gets smaller and smaller as its water is absorbed by sand and gravel is called a(n) stream. meanderin g braided disappeari ng misfit QUESTIO N 2 A hillside in Alabama with bent tree trunks and cock-eyed tomb stones and fence posts is probably experiencing soil creep solifluctio n slump mudflow talus creep QUESTIO N 3 Perhaps the world’s greatest modern natural disaster (in terms of lives lost) was the erupt...

1. What are the three plate boundaries, a de- scription of the di- rection in which they move 2. Features of continen- tal plate (4) Features of oceanic plate (4) 3. What is the structure of the earth starting from the inside (7) 4. Describe what hap- pens at a constructive plate boundary and the landforms associated with it (2) Give one examples of destructive bound- aries 1. Divergent/Constructive (Move away from each other) 2. Convergent/Destructive (Move towards each oth- er...

Attempt History Attempt Time Score LATEST Attempt 1 19 minutes 1.6 out of 1.6 Score for this quiz: 1.6 out of 1.6 Submitted Feb 26 at 2:59am This attempt took 19 minutes. This is a brief quiz about the lecture on fluvial (river) landforms. Ques 0.4 / 0.4 pts tion 1 The term grade refers to a stream's longitudinal profile that is concave upward -- steepest in the headwaters with a lower slope as the stream reaches the ocean. Rivers rarely reach this graded condition, because there are...

Attempt History Attempt Time Score LATEST Attempt 1 19 minutes 1.6 out of 1.6 Score for this quiz: 1.6 out of 1.6 Submitted Feb 26 at 2:59am This attempt took 19 minutes. This is a brief quiz about the lecture on fluvial (river) landforms. Ques 0.4 / 0.4 pts tion 1 The term grade refers to a stream's longitudinal profile that is concave upward -- steepest in the headwaters with a lower slope as the stream reaches the ocean. Rivers rarely reach this graded condition, because there are...