GROUP 1 - CE 2206 - COASTAL ZONES AND PROCESSES

1. What do you call the interface between land and water? These zones are important
because a majority of the world's population inhabits such zones.
a. Ocean
b. Coastal Zone
c. Dune
d. Seabed

2. What type of coastal processes is exhibited on the dolomite rocks used in the Cebu
Province?
a. Chemical Deposition
b. Chemical Transportation
c. Chemical Weathering
d. Chemical Erosion

3. It is a highly specialized type of engineering that is designed to address both natural and
man-made changes in coastal zones.
a. Coastal Engineering
b. Geotechnical Engineering
c. Construction Engineering
d. Hydraulic Engineering

4. This engineering control is traditionally built using large granite rocks that can handle the
impact and the energy of the waves and can either be floating or fixed.
a. Seawall
b. Jetties
c. Breakwater
d. Groin

5. The following are the disadvantages mentioned by the reporters regarding the
construction of a seawall, except.
a. Hastening coastal erosion
b. Sacrificing the public homes
c. Eliminate habitats for birds and wildlife
d. Expensive to build and maintain
GROUP 2 - CE 2206 - MASS MOVEMENT

1. Refers to the downslope movement of rock, regolith, and soil under the direct influence
of gravity.
a. oversteepened slopes
b. mass
c. mass movement
d. vegetation

2. Can dislodge enormous volumes of rock and unconsolidated material.

a. landslides
b. earthquakes and aftershocks
c. avalanches
d. rock falls

3. Also known as mass wasting, represents the downhill movement of a cliff under the
persuasion of gravity.
a. mass movement processes
b. oversteepened slopes
c. mass movement
d. avalanches

4. Fall is the mass movement that exhibits a zone of weakness between the sliding material
and the stable material beneath.
a. false
b. true
c. slightly false
d. slightly true

5. Earthflows most often form on hillsides in humid areas during times of heavy
precipitation or snowmelt.
a. slightly false
b. slightly true
c. false
d. True
GROUP 3 - CE 2206 - ICE AND GLACIERS

1. Large, thick masses of ice that form on land when fallen snow gets compressed into ice over
many centuries.
a. Glaciers
b. Snow
c. Hail
d. Sea Ice

2. When was the last Ice Age?

a. 20,000 years ago
b. 40,000 years ago
c. 30,000 years ago
d. 50,000 years ago

3. The area where the zone of Accumulation and zone of Abrasion meet.
a. Snowline
b. Glacial Line
c. Crevasses
d. Zone of Fracture

4. Listed are the discussed reasons on why it is hard to construct structures on ice, which of the
following is not included?
a. Shifting Ice
b. Melting and Refreezing
c. Extreme Temperatures
d. Inaccessible by Humans
e. Threat of Avalanche

5. Large, thick masses of ice contribute to the water cycle, which of the following statements is
not true?
a. They serve as freshwater source for lakes and rivers
b. They accumulate snow and store them for years
c. Their melting contributes to the rise of the sea level
d. None of the the above
GROUP 4 - CE 2206 - DESERTS AND WIND

1. A distinctive area of western North America that demonstrates some fundamental

principles of mountainous desert landscapes.
BASIC AND RANGE REGION

2. How many percent of Earth’s land area is covered by dry climates?

30%

3. What do you call the breakdown of rocks at the Earth’s surface, by the action of
rainwater, extremes of temperature, and biological activity?
WEATHERING

4. Formed when the wind blows sand particles across a surface and deposits them in a
mound.
SAND DUNES

5. What are the shallow depressions that are the most noticeable results of deflation?
BLOWOUTS
GROUP 5 - CE 2206 - CLIMATE

1. This is the portion of the Earth's Surface where water is solid.

a. Hydrosphere
b. Lithosphere
c. Biosphere
d. Cryosphere
e. Geosphere

2. These are based on fundamental laws of physics and chemistry and incorporate human
and biological interactions. These are used to stimulate many variables, including
temperature, rainfall, snow cover, soil moisture, winds, clouds, sea ice, and ocean
circulation over the entire globe through the seasons and over spans of decades.
a. General Circulation Models
b. Globe Circulation Models
c. Globe Cycle Models
d. General Cycle Models
e. General Climate Models

3. The fractions of the total radiation that is reflected by a surface

a. Evaporation rate
b. Arbento
c. Balbedos
d. Albedo
e. Surface winds

4. What are the two types of feedback mechanisms?

a. Positive and Negative Feedback Mechanisms
b. Forward and Backward Feedback Mechanisms
c. Stationary and Accelerating Feedback Mechanisms
d. Uniform and Non-uniform Feedback Mechanisms
e. North and South Feedback Mechanisms

5. The study of ancient climates and climate change prior to the period of instrumental
records using proxy data.
a. Paleoclimastrophology
b. Paleomagnetism
c. Paleoclimatology
d. Paleovalentology
e. Paleotoribiology