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The wearing down of relief by exogenic forces is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Diastrophism and volcanism are which type of geomorphic process?Read the answer and worked solution →Mountain building by severe folding of long narrow crustal belts is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Epeirogeny is described as which kind of building process?Read the answer and worked solution →Force applied per unit area on earth materials is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Temperature and which other climatic element control most exogenic processes?Read the answer and worked solution →Weathering is described as which kind of process, because little material moves?Read the answer and worked solution →Solution, carbonation, hydration and oxidation are which type of weathering?Read the answer and worked solution →Most physical weathering is caused by thermal expansion and:Read the answer and worked solution →The flaking off of curved sheets from rocks, leaving rounded surfaces, is:Read the answer and worked solution →Weathering that concentrates valuable ores by leaching away other material is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Mass movements carry rock debris down slopes under the direct influence of:Read the answer and worked solution →Slipping of rock debris with a backward rotation is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Debris avalanches and landslides are most frequent in which Indian range?Read the answer and worked solution →Erosion and transportation are controlled by which form of energy?Read the answer and worked solution →Karst topography develops only where rocks are permeable and:Read the answer and worked solution →During deposition, which materials settle out first?Read the answer and worked solution →Soil formation is also called:Read the answer and worked solution →How many basic factors control soil formation?Read the answer and worked solution →Removal of silica from soil in wet equatorial climates is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Calcium carbonate nodules formed in tropical soils are called:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the exogenic processesRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the chemical weatheringRead the answer and worked solution →Run the soil numbersRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the mass movementsRead the answer and worked solution →Endogenic or exogenicRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the weathering typesRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Geomorphic bingoRead the answer and worked solution →A lowland of faint relief left by stream erosion, dotted with monadnocks, is a:Read the answer and worked solution →

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The wearing down of relief by exogenic forces is called:

  1. Epeirogeny
  2. Degradation
  3. Aggradation
  4. Diastrophism
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Correct answer: B. Degradation

1. Filling up of basins is aggradation. 2. Wearing down is degradation. 3. Together they make up gradation. _Source: syllabus Fundamentals of Physical Geography, Chapter 6, Geomorphic Processes._

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Diastrophism and volcanism are which type of geomorphic process?

  1. Endogenic
  2. Exogenic
  3. Denudational
  4. Depositional
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Correct answer: A. Endogenic

1. They come from energy inside the earth. 2. Both are endogenic processes. 3. Weathering and erosion are exogenic. _Source: syllabus Fundamentals of Physical Geography, Chapter 6, Geomorphic Processes._

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Mountain building by severe folding of long narrow crustal belts is called:

  1. Isostatic
  2. Orogenic
  3. Epeirogenic
  4. Volcanism
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Correct answer: B. Orogenic

1. It is one part of diastrophism. 2. Orogenic processes build mountains. 3. Epeirogenic processes uplift large areas. _Source: syllabus Fundamentals of Physical Geography, Chapter 6, Geomorphic Processes._

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