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Multiple choice geography our changing earth earthquake earthquakes earth's movement and creation of landforms

The huge mass of ice and snow moving slowly is called __________.

  1. glacier

  2. moraine

  3. magma

  4. lava
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The moving ice mass downslope under the impact of gravity is called a glacier. About 10 percent of the earth's surface is now covered by the glacier. Glacier is formed due to the accumulation of ice above snow-line under extreme cold climate.

Multiple choice geography our changing earth earthquake earthquakes earth's movement and creation of landforms

What is the name for an amphitheater-like hollow that forms at the head of a glacier?

  1. Kettle

  2. Moraine

  3. Cirque

  4. Horn
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Cirque is a bowl-shaped, amphitheater-like depression eroded into the head or the side of a glacier valley. Typically, a cirque has a lip at its lower end. A cirque may also be a similarly shaped landform arising from fluvial erosion.

Multiple choice geography our changing earth earthquake earthquakes earth's movement and creation of landforms

Which of the following agents of erosion deposits the most poorly sorted sediment?

  1. Wind

  2. Streams

  3. Ice

  4. Ocean currents
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Ice is the poorest sorter of sediment. Glaciers can transport almost any size sediment easily, and when ice flow slows down or stops, the sediment is not deposited, due to the density of the ice. As a result, sediments deposited directly by ice when it melts are usually very poorly sorted. Significant sorting only occurs in glacial sediments that are subsequently transported by melt water from the glacier. Wind, on the other hand, is the best sorter of sediment, because it can usually only transport sediment that ranges in size from sand to clay. Occasional variation in wind speed during transport serves to further sort out these sediment sizes.

Multiple choice geography our changing earth earthquake earthquakes earth's movement and creation of landforms

Due to the denudation work of __________ moraines are formed.

  1. glaciers

  2. wind

  3. river

  4. magma
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

When glaciers melt or recede they deposit the rock materials brought by them in heaps of various shapes and size. These are known as moraines. Moraines are depositional feature and consist of rock materials of heterogeneous shape and size.

Multiple choice geography constellations and galaxies constellation different constellations and galaxies milky way
Fill in the blanks:

In Ursa Major, _______ stars form the shape of the handle and ______ stars form the shape of the bowl of the ladle respectively.
  1. $4, 3$
  2. $5, 6$
  3. $3, 4$
  4. $2, 5$
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The $7$ prominent stars of Ursa Major for the shape of a big ladle in which $3$ stars form the handle and the other $4$ form the bowl of the ladle.

Multiple choice geography constellations and galaxies constellation different constellations and galaxies milky way
Identify the wrong statement about Ursa major.

  1. It can be used to locate Pole star.

  2. It is seen during winter.

  3. It is also called the Big Dipper.

  4. It has 7 prominent stars.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Ursa Major can be used to locate the Pole star by extending an imaginary straight line towards the north from the last tow stars.

It is also known as the Big dipper and has 7 bright prominent stars which look like a question mark. 
It is seen during summer season and not during winter.