Physical Geography Multiple Choice Quiz A6

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Physical Geography Terms - Multiple Choice A6 : Ten Questions

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Q1) Acid Rain?

Geomorphic process involving rain.
Mixing of rain by chaotic air currents.
Rain with a pH less than 5.6
Rain with a pH less than 4.6

Q2) Acid Shock?

A sudden acidification of runoff waters from the spring melting of accumulated snow in the middle latitudes because of the winter deposition of acidic precipitation.
Mixing of the atmosphere by chaotic air currents.
The rate of air temperature increase or decrease with altitude.
The loss of water to the atmosphere via the processes of evaporation and transpiration.

Q3) Actinomycetes?

The outermost zone in the Earth's atmosphere.
Three-dimensional atmospheric circulation cell located at roughly 0 to 30° North and South of the equator.
Group of filamentous microorganisms that are intermediate between bacteria and fungi.
Time required for one half of the nuclei in a radioisotope to emit its radiation.

Q4) Actual Evapotranspiration?

Climatic conditions in the geological past reconstructed from a direct or indirect data source.
Is the amount of water that is actually removed from a surface due to the processes of evaporation and transpiration.
A soil exhibiting features that are the result of some past conditions and processes.
Term used to describe a number of surface features found in periglacial environments.

Q5) Active Layer?

The mineral material from which a soil forms.
An arid landscape of little relief that is occasionally interrupted by the presence of scattered inselbergs. Formed by the coalescence of several pediments.
Upper zone of soil in higher latitude locations that experiences daily and seasonal freeze-thaw cycles.
Resistance between the contact surfaces of two bodies in motion.

Q6) Active Remote Sensing?

Form of remote sensing where the sensor provides its own source of electromagnetic radiation to illuminate the object understudy.
Process that changes the state of rest or motion of a body.
Force resulting in the speed of a moving body to increase.
Processes associated with daily and seasonal cycles of freezing and melting.

Q7) Adiabatic?

A type of mass movement where there is a downslope flow of a saturated mass of soil, sediment, and rock debris.
Landforms created by processes associated with intense freeze-thaw action in an area high latitude areas or near an alpine or continental glacier.
A process in which heat does not enter or leave a system.
none of the above

Q8) Actual Mixing Ratio?

To chemically or physically breakdown a mass of matter into smaller parts or chemical elements.
Another term used to describe mixing ratio.
The transmission of behavioral, physiological and morphological characteristics from parent to offspring.
Process where the output of a system causes positive or negative changes to some measured component of the system.

Q9) Adaptation?

A constant or non-changing state of equilibrium in a system despite changes in external conditions.
Time required for one half of the nuclei in a radioisotope to emit its radiation.
Change in an organism's physiology as a result of exposure to some environmental condition.
Refers to the quantity of mass per unit volume.

Q10) Adaptive Radiation?

The evolution of a number of new species from one or a few ancestor species over many thousands or millions of years.
Inference in which the conclusion about particulars follows necessarily from general theory.
Process where wind erosion creates blowout depressions or deflation hollows by removing and transporting sediment and soil.
The erosion or wearing down of a landmass.

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