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Environmental Geology 10th Edition Montgomery Test Bank Full Chapter PDF
Environmental Geology 10th Edition Montgomery Test Bank Full Chapter PDF
Environmental Geology 10th Edition Montgomery Test Bank Full Chapter PDF
Chapter 08
Mass Movements
1. Mass wasting
A. Is a formal term for the weathering of rock masses.
B. Represents the process of lava flow.
C. Is the movement of material (rock or soil) down slope due to gravity.
D. Is the movement of material by wind.
3. The steepest stable slope that an unconsolidated material can maintain is the material's
A. Shear strength.
B. Angle of repose.
C. Cohesion.
D. Scarp.
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6. Rock falls
A. Occur only on mountain sides in dry climates.
B. Occur on any steep-faced cliff, including under waterfalls.
C. Cause the "nick point" in a stream to migrate downstream with time.
D. Are unaffected by waves slamming against the base of a sea cliff.
8. Quick clay is
A. A marine deposited mixture of glacially derived clay and silt weakened by infiltrating fresh
water upon uplift of these sediments above sea level.
B. Clay that expands when wet, contracts when dry.
C. Clay that forms very steep cliffs, which slide rapidly when they fall.
D. Clay that is too unstable for plants to grow on.
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10. The coarse material that gathers at the foot of the slope which results in rockfalls is called
A. Debris.
B. Talus.
C. Detritus.
D. Clastic.
12. This type of mass wasting is a hazard within Yosemite National Park
A. Slumps.
B. Rock slides and rock falls.
C. Debris flows.
D. Rock creep.
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15. When wet soil moves slowly over an impermeable surface the phenomenon observed is
called
A. Solifluction.
B. Permafrost.
C. Rock slide.
D. Rockfall.
16. All of the following could increase the risk of landslide on a slope except
A. Use of septic tanks.
B. Building a house on the slope.
C. Planting shrubs with extensive root systems.
D. Adding fill at the top of the slope to build a road.
17. The type of clay that can absorb water up to twenty times its weight and results in the
formation of a weak gel is
A. Kaolinite.
B. Calcite.
C. Montmorillonite.
D. All the choices are correct.
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21. The reason clay minerals (and other phyllosilicate) often form the slip plane for a
landslide is that they
A. Have platy structures, allowing them to stack up and then slip past each other, like a deck
of cards and also have high porosity.
B. Have rigid structures that can trap oil and the oil acts as a lubricant for the landslide.
C. Are made of material that dissolves easily in water, initiating a landslide in the process.
D. Change their internal structure under stress, allowing them to get "mushy" and thus be
slippery.
23. Rainfall intensity and duration affect the likelihood of the occurrence of mass movement.
Which of the following is true?
A. Rainfall intensity is more important than duration.
B. Rainfall duration is more important than intensity.
C. They are equally important and their effect is universal: a unique combination of rainfall
duration and intensity will set off mass movement anywhere.
D. They are both important, but different geologic materials and geographic settings have
different resistance to mass movement as started by rainfall.
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24. A kind of mass movement in which materials move in a disorganized, chaotic fashion is a
A. Slide.
B. Fall.
C. Slump.
D. Flow.
25. Where rotational movement of soil is accompanied by downslope movement the feature
that is observed is a
A. Scarp.
B. Talus.
C. Slump.
D. Solifluction.
Scrambling: Locked.
28. What is the most important process for the loosening and braking up of consolidated rock
in high, mountainous regions?
A. Increasing effective stress
B. Repetitive freezing of water and thawing of ice in cracks
C. Increasing the consolidation parameter
D. Erosion by rivers
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29. In designing a retaining wall to support an unstable slope, the best design would be
A. A high, thin, impermeable wall.
B. A high, thin wall with drainage holes.
C. A short, stout wall at the foot of the slope.
D. Any of these; all would be equally effective.
33. A landslide warning system, developed in California, utilizes all of the following except
A. The past history of sliding in an area.
B. Quantitative relationships between storm intensity and duration and resultant sliding.
C. Laboratory studies of response of slopes to earthquakes.
D. Characteristics of slopes, such as angles and soil types.
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34. Factors contributing to the Vaiont Reservoir landslide included all of the following
except
A. Heavy rains.
B. Filling of the reservoir.
C. The presence of clay-rich layers in the valley wall rocks.
D. Earthquakes.
36. Reduction of the slide potential of a very steep slope can be carried out by
A. Placing more support on the foot of the slope.
B. Reducing the weight or loan on the slope.
C. Reducing the angle of the slope.
D. All of the choices are correct.
38. Localized areas of high landslide risk may occur within regions of overall low risk.
TRUE
39. Mass wasting is possible anywhere in the world, either due to natural processes or human
modification.
TRUE
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40. The removal of vegetation always makes soil-covered slopes more stable because it
removes excess weight.
FALSE
41. The light weight of snow, as compared with soil or rock, means that snow avalanches are
never a threat to property.
FALSE
43. Mass wasting threatens only property, not lives, because it occurs so slowly.
FALSE
44. In a true slide, movement of a coherent mass of material occurs along a well-defined
plane.
TRUE
45. A secondary hazard of landslides is flooding that occurs when slides dam stream valleys.
TRUE
46. Sites of past rock falls or slides are sometimes obvious because they remain unagitated.
TRUE
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48. Once poor land-use practices causing landslides are halted, the slides will also stop
moving.
TRUE
49. A landslide warning system recently tested in California could identify the areas at risk,
but could not predict the time of probable sliding.
TRUE
50. In landslide-prone areas, whether a given rainstorm will cause sliding may depend, in part,
on the amount of rainfall in the recent past, too.
TRUE
52. In the Vaiont Reservoir disaster, flooding resulted when water rushed over the dam due to
a large landslide.
TRUE
53. Heavy rains and thick tropical soils caused landslides and debris flows along the
Venezuelan coast.
TRUE
54. Rock falls and rock slides occur in Yosemite National Park because slopes over steepened
by past glaciations are readjusting to lower, safer slope angles.
TRUE
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between the two lying at its foot.
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of the great hill—Jebel Edmondstone—that lies some fifteen miles to
the west of Qasr Dakhl, gave us considerable trouble, not only on
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put one man on either side of each camel, and make them take the
weight of the loads on their backs, and lift them up with every step
that the camels gave, in order to get them along at all. Then having
got a beast through the soft places, I had to fetch the others across,
one by one, in the same manner. Our rate of progress consequently
fell to something like half a mile an hour.
On the evening of the fifth day after leaving Bu Mungar we arrived
in Mut, having lost some of the baggage, two men and two out of our
seven camels, and with the rest of the caravan pretty well foundered
from over-driving.
During the journey down from Bu Mungar, my own men, as I
expected, finding that, as members of the Senussia, they had to give
up smoking, gradually came round and recovered from their attack of
Senussism. So, before reaching Mut, we halted out of sight of the
town, and I put Abd er Rahman up on a camel and sent him in to find
out how the land lay in the oasis.
He returned extremely pleased with himself. He had left his camel
tied up among the dunes and had then gone into Mut “like a thief,” as
he expressed it, so that no one should see him and had gone to the
house of a friend of his, who told him that some Tibbus had been
several times into Mut, but had not been seen there recently. They
had gone back to the zawia at Qasr Dakhl. Here, as I afterwards
heard, they were seen and photographed by a native who happened
to have come into the oasis from the Nile Valley. His friend thought it
would be quite safe for us to come into the oasis, as when once we
had been seen there, the Senussi would not dare to molest us. So
we packed up our traps again and started.
On reaching Mut, I again put up in the old store. Having seen my
baggage safely deposited there, I went round to the post office to get
my mail.
I found Sheykh Senussi—the poetical clerk of the qadi—had
managed to get his son appointed as postmaster in the oasis, a
position that must have been of considerable use to the Senussi, on
account of the thinness of the envelopes used by the natives.
Though office hours, so far as they can be said to exist in Dakhla,
were long over, the door of the office itself was open, and I entered
without being heard. I found the intelligence department of the
Senussi in the oasis, consisting of Sheykh Senussi and his son, hard
at work examining the mails. They held each letter up in turn to the
light, and, if the contents were of interest, read them through the
envelope. A letter lying on the top of a basin of hot water had
presumably been undecipherable in this way, and so the flap of the
envelope had to be steamed open. A stick of wax and a bottle of
gum, lying on the counter, seemed to indicate that sometimes they
experienced some difficulty in reclosing the correspondence after it
had been read.
I walked quietly away from the door, and then returned clearing
my throat loudly and making as much noise as I could and asked for
my mail. Sheykh Senussi welcomed me most cordially. The basin of
water, the gum and the sealing wax had all disappeared. The
postmaster was busily engaged in sorting the letters. But I fancy that
I had just seen one of the many ways in which information gets
known in Egypt!
Affairs in Mut I found to be in a very queer state. A new mamur
had arrived on the scene, who, according to reports, both drank and
took hashish to such an extent that he had gone practically mad. He
had quarrelled so violently with the police officer, his understudy, that
one day he had fired three revolver shots at him, from a window in
his house, as he crossed the square by the mosque. I was shown
the places where the bullets had ploughed up the ground, so
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The mamur, after this exhibition, shut himself up in his house and
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half-opened door, but this was the only view I had of him.
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not called on him as he was the head of the Government in the
oasis, and a much more important person than I was myself. He
added that he expected me to do so at once. As my views as to our
relative importance differed from his, I continued to ayb him in the
same way till I left the oasis.
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day to the village of Hindau. There was, I knew, a small Senussi
zawia there, but it would have been useless for me to refuse him
permission, so long as he was at liberty, and with the existing state
of affairs in the oasis it was quite out of the question to try and get
him arrested. So I thought it best to pretend I did not see what he
was driving at and allowed him to go.
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when, rather to my surprise, I heard Qwaytin’s voice in the court
below talking to Dahab and Abd er Rahman. As I had not expected
him back so soon, I suspected that he was up to some mischief, so
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men.
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identity I entertained no doubt at all—listeners proverbially hear no
good of themselves. Several times I heard him state “Sheykh Ahmed
says—” something that was quite inaudible, followed by
expostulations from Dahab and Abd er Rahman, and then again they
were told that “Sheykh Ahmed says—” something else that the kafir
would have given a good deal to have heard.
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announcing that Dakhla was a very bad place indeed, and that we
must get out of it as quickly as possible.
Abd er Rahman next burst unceremoniously in and asked abruptly
when I intended to start. I told him I meant to get off as soon as I
possibly could. He looked immensely relieved, and said that the
sooner we started the better.
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native-like I could not get them to be in the least explicit.
I went out and interviewed Qwaytin and told him I intended to start
the next day. He grinned and refused absolutely to let me have the
camels. I felt inclined to take them, but a large trading caravan with
several bedawin had come in during the day, and these men all hung
round listening to our conversation in what seemed to be anything
but a friendly frame of mind, and I thought it best not to make the
attempt. I sounded one or two of the traders with a view to hiring
their camels, but met with a surly refusal. I might, of course, have
tried to get the Government authorities in the oasis to force Qwaytin
to fulfil his arrangement with me; but it does not do, in a case of this
sort, for a white man to appeal to a native official for assistance, so I
had to look round for some other means of continuing our journey.
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were in the oasis. Then, having arranged to leave part of my
baggage, for which I had no immediate use, in safe keeping in Mut
till I could send for it, I prepared to start on the following morning.
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gather information as to the Senussia. During our visits to Mut, this
man on several occasions made himself considerably useful to us;
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conducted his operations in a clandestine manner.
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middle of the night, and brought him up to my room. His information
was entirely satisfactory. I was unable to get out of him exactly what
scheme the Senussi had devised for our benefit, but he declared that
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episode should be forgotten and that they should now appear as our
best friends. He said that, if we got away quickly, we had nothing to
fear from them; but he emphasised the importance of not wasting
any time. I sent him off with a thumping bakhshish.
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