Question: The continuous cycle of water that freezes and melts in rock joints cause physical weathering because:

Answer Choices:
Water expands through the cycle
The constant of water increases
Rock chemical weathering
None of these

Answer: Water expands through the cycle

Question: Offset streams and escarpments can give evidence to past seismic activity.

Answer Choices:
True
False

Answer: True

Question: During systole, ___.

Answer Choices:
a. Blood is entering the heart
b. Both

Answer: a. Blood is entering the heart

Question: The growth of crystals within a rock, which causes the rock to break down due to slow crystal growth, is a form of differential weathering.

True
False

Answer: True

Question: Flash floods are the worst in:

Answer Choices:
Alluvial fans
Rocky coasts
Estuaries
Open fields with low rainfall

Answer: Alluvial fans

Question: Even though it has been very hot in Phoenix for a while, Summer did not technically start until June 21st.

Answer Choices:
True
False

Answer: True

Question: High levels of hydrogen would decrease heart contractility.

Answer Choices:
a. True
b. False

Answer: a. True

Question: Clay soils have high infiltration capacities.

Answer Choices:
True
False

Answer: False

Question: Which is NOT a type of physical weathering?

Answer Choices:
Heat expansion
Plant and animal activity
Wind and physical disturbance with the sky
All crystals disintegrate easily

Answer: Wind and physical disturbance with the sky

Question: Our Sun generates almost all of the energy that drives Earth’s processes, as seen in the hydrologic cycle and photosynthesis.

Answer Choices:
True
False

Answer: True

Question: During a Summer Solstice (June 21st) the sun’s rays are overhead at noon at:

Answer Choices:
23.5 degrees South latitude
66.5 degrees North latitude
45 degrees North latitude
The equator

Answer: 66.5 degrees North latitude

Question: Physical geography is the dynamic interactions that take place on the face of the Earth, and the influence that humans have on a wide range of natural and human aspects.

Answer Choices:
True
False

Answer: True

Question: Discharge is a high enough that the risk of water exclusion is a streambed.

Answer Choices:
True
False

Answer: False

Question: Where is the SA node located?

Answer Choices:
a. atrial retina
b. hypothalamus
c. cardiac center
d. medulla oblongata

Answer: d. medulla oblongata

Question: Places like the Amazon rainforest have a high infiltration capacity.

Answer Choices:
True
False

Answer: True

Question: Flash floods happen due to:

Answer Choices:
Ice melting
Water from dams and levees
Rainfall
All of the above

Answer: All of the above

Question: Winter Solstice which eventually marks the beginning of winter occurs Dec. 21st.

Answer Choices:
True
False

Answer: True

Question: The closer you are to the poles, the less annual variability there is in temperature.

Answer Choices:
True
False

Answer: False

Question: Rocks form under finite rates under high pressure and temperature.

Answer Choices:
True
False

Answer: True