Exam 16: Weathering and Mass Movement

In the figure, box D shows what?

__________ is a depression that forms as the ceiling of a cavern caves in.

Explain how cockpit karst and tower karst form.

​ -In terms of slope stability factors in Table 16.2, earthquakes can do what?

When a stalactite joins to a stalagmite, a limestone column forms.

__________ is a depression in Earth's surface that results from weathering of carbonate rock.

Earthquakes are likely to result in mass movement events.

What differences are there between flows and landslides?

Up to __________ billion dollars in damage is caused by mass movement in the United States each year.

Mass movements cannot occur without gravity.

Dissolution is the process whereby:

A lahar is a type of soil creep.

Boulders become rounded through what process?

About __________ deaths are caused by mass movements each year in the United States.

Most mass movements are caused by three factors.Which of these is not one of those three factors?

Exfoliation is a type of pressure-release jointing.

-Cattle terraces, shown in the photo, occur only in what type of topography?

Stalactites first form as hollow tubes called soda straws.

As vegetation grows on a slope, the slope will likely become __________.

Talus is typically formed by what process?