Answer Choices:
a. increase
b. decrease
c. have no effect on
Answer: b. decrease
Question: The water table is the zone of aeration.
Answer Choices:
True
False
Answer: False
Question: Dissolution in rocks can cause “sinkholes” due to slightly acidic water. The best example of this is a carbonate rock (limestone) reacts such as:
Answer Choices:
Karstic
Bauxitic
Granite
Gneiss
Answer: Karstic
Question: The length of day and the length of night is 12 hours each everywhere on Earth during the Vernal and Autumnal Equinox.
Answer Choices:
True
False
Answer: True
Question: Columnar jointing occurs due to torrential uplift.
Answer Choices:
True
False
Answer: False
Question: Low infiltration rates mean that water gets locked into the ground quickly providing adequate groundwater.
Answer Choices:
True
False
Answer: False
Question: The atmospheric layer that we live in is called the Troposphere.
Answer Choices:
True
False
Answer: True
Question: Rocks break down faster [because] in cold rock outcropping.
Answer Choices:
True
False
Answer: False
Question: The key factor to the seasons on Earth is mainly due to:
Answer Choices:
Earth’s distance from the Sun
Earth’s smoothly finished surface
Axial parallelism
Axial tilt
Answer: Axial tilt
Question: A torreon-topped landscape means there is a lot of weathering in this type of landscape but not much transport or removal through rain and wind.
Answer Choices:
True
False
Answer: True
Question: In physical geography we can study:
Answer Choices:
All of the answers chosen
Topography
Geology
All above
Climatology
Answer: All above
Question: The closing of the SL valves makes the first heart sound in the cardiac cycle.
Answer Choices:
a. True
b. False
Answer: b. False
Question: Joints help set the stage for weathering.
Answer Choices:
True
False
Answer: True
Question: The amount of usable freshwater available to us is approximately:
Answer Choices:
1%
3%
12%
25%
Answer: 1%
Question: If diastrophism is happening at a slower rate than degradation, then you are considered “safe” in terms of natural disasters.
Answer Choices:
True
False
Answer: False
Question: During a Winter Solstice (Dec 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: 23.5 degrees South latitude
Question: What kind of topography does frost weathering produce?
Answer Choices:
Ice grounds
Ice basins
Parent and daughter features
Smooth rock formations
Answer: Smooth rock formations
Question: We can change the landscape by moving over the ground which:
Answer Choices:
Increases infiltration capacity causing less runoff
Increases infiltration capacity causing more runoff
Decreases infiltration capacity causing less runoff
Decreases infiltration capacity causing more runoff
Answer: Decreases infiltration capacity causing more runoff
Question: Some of the physical geography methods used in geographic analysis may include remote sensing, field methods and GIS.
Answer Choices:
True
False
Answer: True
Question: The closer you are to the equator, the less annual variability there is in temperature.
Answer Choices:
True
False
Answer: True
Question: The Earth rotates clockwise about its own axis every 24 hours.
Answer Choices:
True
False
Answer: False
Question: When the ventricles are open, which of the following are occurring?
Answer Choices:
a. All of these are occurring.
b. Blood is entering the atria.
c. Blood is entering the pulmonary arteries.
d. The ventricles are in diastole.
Answer: a. All of these are occurring.
Question: A transform fault is an extensional fault where rocks are being pulled apart.
Answer Choices:
True
False
Answer: False
Question: Veins lack ___?
Answer Choices:
a. thick walls
b. elasticity for recoil
c. valves
d. all of these
e. none of these
Answer: e. none of these
Question: High drainage density means that there are a lot of channels in an area but connect and carry water to larger streams.
Answer Choices:
True
False
Answer: True