geomorphology & earth landforms section 3 Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions & More Shortcuts

Answer: (a)

Answer: (d)

The equator passes through 13 countries:

1. Ecuador,
2. Colombia,
3. Brazil,
4. Sao Tome & Principe,
5. Gabon,
6. Republic of the Congo,
7. Democratic Republic of the Congo,
8. Uganda,
9. Kenya,
10. Somalia,
11. Maldives,
12. Indonesia and
13. Kiribati.

Answer: (a)

Answer: (b)

Both the Arctic (North Pole) and the Antarctic (South Pole) are cold because they don’t get any direct sunlight. What makes the South Pole so much colder than the North Pole is that it sits on top of a very thick ice sheet, which itself sits on a continent.

The surface of the ice sheet at the South Pole is more than 9,000 feet in elevation—more than a mile and a half above sea level. This elevation makes the South Pole much colder than the North Pole, which sits in the middle of the Arctic Ocean (National Geographic).

Answer: (d)

The conglomerate is not a metamorphic rock. The conglomerate is a rock consisting of individual clasts within a finer-grained matrix that have become cemented together.

Conglomerates are sedimentary rocks consisting of rounded fragments and are thus differentiated from breccias, which consist of angular clasts.