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61.
Which of the following are landscape features typically associated with an active strike-slip fault?
  1. Hanging valleys and tarns.
  2. Kame terraces and eskers.
  3. Horsts and grabens.
  4. Scarps and sag ponds.
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62.
Lichens, plant roots, and fungi are able to chemically weather rock. These organisms typically accomplish this by:
  1. Drawing molecular water from the crystals that make up the rock.
  2. Producing acids that cause the decomposition of the rock.
  3. Extracting minerals directly from the rock through osmosis.
  4. Manufacturing salts that alter the rock's crystal structure
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63.
Which of the following properties of water is primarily responsible for its role in mechanical weathering?
  1. Water increases in density as it goes from 0°C to 4°C and then decreases above 4°C.
  2. The capacity of liquid water to store heat energy is very high.
  3. The hydrogen bonding between water molecules gives it a high surface tension.
  4. Water increases in volume as it goes from a liquid to a solid state.
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64.
In some desert regions, a thin layer of closely packed pebbles and cobbles covers the ground surface. This phenomenon, known as desert pavement, is primarily caused by the:
  1. Differential erosion of sediments by wind.
  2. Slow dispersal of material from the base of alluvial fans by gravity.
  3. Breakup of bedrock under hot and dry conditions.
  4. Deposition of coarse-grained sediments during flash flooding.
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65.
In New England, it is common to find striations in the surface of exposed rock outcrops. These linear grooves are primarily produced by:
  1. Ice that is well below its freezing point at the base of surging glaciers.
  2. Extreme temperature changes that produce fractures in the bedrock underlying glaciers.
  3. Large rocks that are embedded in the base of glaciers.
  4. Silt-rich water under tremendous pressure at the base of continental glaciers.
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