GEG 111 FINAL EXAM (HARPER COLLEGE) REAL EXAM VERIFIED QUESTIONS & CORRECTLY HIGHLIGHTED ANSWERS 2024 LATEST VESION 100% QUALIFIED PASS.

GEG 111 FINAL EXAM (HARPER COLLEGE) REAL EXAM VERIFIED QUESTIONS & CORRECTLY HIGHLIGHTED ANSWERS 2024 LATEST VESION 100% QUALIFIED PASS. Denudation - ANSWER- The lowering of continental surfaces as a result of weathering, erosion, and mass movement. Physical Weathering - ANSWER- The disintegration of rock without any chemical alteration. • Also known as mechanical weathering. • Physical weathering increases the surface area on which further weathering can operate. Chemical Weathering - ANSWER- The chemical breakdown of rock in the presence of water • Chemical decomposition and decay become more intense as both temperature and precipitation increase. Mass Movement types - ANSWER- Soil creep, rockfall, debris flow, landslide, slump, transitional slide, mudflow, and earthflow. Origin of term, "karst" - ANSWER- Named after the Krš Plateau of Slovenia. Typical karst landforms - ANSWER- Sinkholes, disappearing streams, karst valleys, tropical karst, caves and caverns. Desert pavement - ANSWER- A desert surface covered with closely packed, interlocking angular or rounded rock fragments. Cirque - ANSWER- A glacier that forms when snow fills a bowlshaped depression at the top of a valley. Fjord - ANSWER- A drowned glaciated valley, or glacial trough, along a sea coast. Moraines - ANSWER- Rolling topography consisting primarily of unsorted and unstratified glacial sediment. Kettle - ANSWER- A depression that forms when an isolated block of ice persists in a ground moraine or outwash plain; as the block melts the hollow may be filled with water. Esker - ANSWER- A long, narrow, steep-sided ridge of coarse sand and gravel deposited by a stream flowing in or under a melting sheet of glacial ice. Drumlin - ANSWER- Hills of deposited till that are streamlined in the direction of ice sheet movement, with the blunt end upstream and the tapered end downstream.