The Sudden Tearing Away of Land Along a River with the Re-Deposit

question 35

Multiple Choice

The sudden tearing away of land along a river with the re-deposit of the land on the other side of the river, downstream, is called:

• A) erosion
• B) accretion
• C) avulsion
• D) reliction

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Definitions:

Isotope

A variant of a particular chemical element which differs in neutron number, though it shares the same number of protons.

Electrons

Negatively charged subatomic particles with a very small mass, found orbiting the nucleus of an atom.

Oxygen

A chemical element with symbol O, essential for respiration in many organisms and important in various industrial processes.

Isotopes

Forms of the same chemical element that have different numbers of neutrons, leading to variations in their total number of nucleons.