GROUP 1 - CE 2202 - COASTAL ZONE AND PROCESSES

1. Why shoreline is considered a dynamic interface?

Answer: Shorelines is constantly changing due to interplay between forces of
water and land.

2. It is the sawing and grinding action of the water armed with rock fragments.
Answer: Abrasion

3. It is found near the shoreline, such as headlands, beaches, lagoons, sandbars,

tombolos.
Answer: Erosional Features

4. Enumerate the categories of destruction caused by a hurricane.

Answer: Storm Surge, Wind Damage, Inland Flooding

5. The Process of adding large quantities of sand to beaches.

Answer: Beach Nourishment

GROUP 2 - CE 2202 - MASS MOVEMENT

1. The mountain is said to be overstepped when the angle of repose is _______ than
40 degrees.
Answer: MORE

2. In the formation of permafrost, what is the required minimum temperature (in

Fahrenheit)?
Answer: 32°F

3. It is the driving force of mass movement.

Answer: GRAVITY

4. When did the earthquake in Northridge Los Angeles, California happened?

Answer: January 1944

5. Identify the missing label

Answer: Scarp
GROUP 3 - CE 2202 - ICE AND GLACIERS

1. It is a thick ice mass that forms over hundreds or thousands of years. It originates on
land from the accumulation, compaction, and recrystallization of snow.
Answer: Glacier

2. A time when ice sheets and alpine glaciers were far more extensive than they are
today.
Answer: Ice Age

3. A term for any sediments of glacial origin.

Answer: Glacial Drift

4. Series of deep fissures in the zone of fracture of a glacier resulting from stress
produced by the movement.
Answer: Crevasses

5. Glaciers erode the land primarily in two ways. What are those?
Answer: Plucking and Abrasion

GROUP 4 - CE 2202 - DESERTS AND WIND

1. What is the world's largest desert?

Answer: SAHARA DESERT

2. Deserts have _____________ or ephemeral streams (ephemero = short-lived), which

means they carry water only in response to specific episodes of rainfall.
Answer: INTERMITTENT

3. What is a cone of debris at the mouth of a canyon?

Answer: ALLUVIAL FAN

4. These ______ can be seen when deflation ends.

Answer: DESERT PAVEMENTS or BLOWOUTS

5. Isolated hills of sand that exhibit a complex form.

Answer: STAR DUNES

GROUP 5 - CE 2202 - CLIMATE

1. The aggregate of weather conditions for a place or region over a long period of time.
Answer: CLIMATE
2. Its role is to trap heat in the atmosphere and keep the Earth's surface warm enough
to support life.
Answer: GREENHOUSE GASES OR TRACE GASES

3. A form of oxygen that combines three oxygen atoms into each molecule.
Answer: OZONE

4. Also known as "laughing gas".

Answer: NITROUS OXIDE

5. Produce results that are just the opposite of the initial change and tend to offset it.
Answer: NEGATIVE FEEDBACK MECHANISMS