Lec 7 ECSI 1000 Practice Exam Questions With Correct Guaranteed Answers.
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ECSI
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ECSI
Types of landslides are determined by: - correct answer Mechanism of movement (fall, slide, flow)
Type of material (rock? Gravel? sand?)
Amount of water in material
The rate of movement
What is a snow avalanche? - correct answer ...
Types of landslides are determined by: - correct answer Mechanism of
movement (fall, slide, flow)
Type of material (rock? Gravel? sand?)
Amount of water in material
The rate of movement
What is a snow avalanche? - correct answer Masses of snow, generally more
than a few cubic meter's in volume, that separate from the intact snowpack and slide or flow downslope
What is a land slide? - correct answer the sliding down of a mass of earth or
rock from a mountain or cliff.
What is mass wasting? - correct answer the movement of rock and soil down
slope under the influence of gravity
If you can see it move with your eyes, it is considered - correct answer rapid
If you cannot see it move it is considered - correct answer slow (movement of
up to millimeters a year).
Landslides can even be found in space. An example can be - correct answer
Mars
Where does the majority of landslide activity occur in Canada? - correct answer
Western part of Canada (Cordillera)
How many estimated snow avalanches occur in the western cordillera per year? - correct answer
1.5 million
, How many people die every year from snow avalanches? - correct answer A
dozen people die
Landslides can have three different movements: - correct answer - Fall
- Slide
- Flow
What is a fall landslide? - correct answer Involves steep or vertical drops
What is a slide landslide? - correct answer Involves inclined movement with a
sliding motion
What is a flow landslide? - correct answer Inclined motion with flowing motion
What is rock fall? (Mass movement) - correct answer The downslope
movement of rock or blocks of sediment from the face of a cliff
What is the difference between a slide and a flow? - correct answer Slide is
one big block where a flow is individual particles moving independently
What is talus? - correct answer A natural slope made of the abundance of
loose rocks that have fallen from an above cliff or surface
What is a rock slide? - correct answer Downslope movement of a block of rock
or sediment along a discrete failure plane
Describe the Frank Slide event (location, year, and deaths) - correct answer
Occurred in 1903 killing 74 people in Frank town Alberta.
What is a failure plane? - correct answer The surface along where sliding rock
occurs
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