Question Paper
Class / Subject: Class 9 (ICSE) · Geography
Chapter: Chapter 7 — Chapter 7: Weathering and Denudation
Time Allowed: 32 minutes
Max Marks: 16
1. What is physical weathering? [1]
(A) Breaking rocks via temperature or freezing water
(B) Chemical reactions breaking rocks
(C) Moving weathered material
(D) No physical process
2. What is chemical weathering? [1]
(A) Chemical reactions breaking down rocks
(B) Physical breaking of rocks
(C) Moving weathered material
(D) No chemical process
3. What is denudation? [1]
(A) Weathering combined with erosion
(B) Only weathering
(C) Only erosion
(D) Neither weathering nor erosion
4. What is erosion? [1]
(A) Movement of weathered material
(B) Breaking rocks in place
(C) Forming new rocks
(D) No movement occurs
5. What moves weathered material? [1]
(A) Wind, water or ice
(B) Only wind
(C) Only water
(D) Nothing moves it
6. What do these processes create? [1]
(A) Valleys and canyons
(B) Only mountains, nothing else
(C) No landforms
(D) Only oceans
7. What do these processes do to mountains over time? [1]
(A) Gradually wear them down
(B) Build them up instantly
(C) Have no effect
(D) Only affect valleys, not mountains
8. Why study weathering and denudation? [1]
(A) To understand how Earth's surface is reshaped
(B) No reason
(C) It's not useful
(D) Only for tests
9. What is physical weathering? [1]
(A) Breaking rocks via temperature or freezing water
(B) Chemical reactions breaking rocks
(C) Moving weathered material
(D) No physical process
10. What is chemical weathering? [1]
(A) Chemical reactions breaking down rocks
(B) Physical breaking of rocks
(C) Moving weathered material
(D) No chemical process
11. What is denudation? [1]
(A) Weathering combined with erosion
(B) Only weathering
(C) Only erosion
(D) Neither weathering nor erosion
12. What is erosion? [1]
(A) Movement of weathered material
(B) Breaking rocks in place
(C) Forming new rocks
(D) No movement occurs
13. What moves weathered material? [1]
(A) Wind, water or ice
(B) Only wind
(C) Only water
(D) Nothing moves it
14. What do these processes create? [1]
(A) Valleys and canyons
(B) Only mountains, nothing else
(C) No landforms
(D) Only oceans
15. What do these processes do to mountains over time? [1]
(A) Gradually wear them down
(B) Build them up instantly
(C) Have no effect
(D) Only affect valleys, not mountains
16. Why study weathering and denudation? [1]
(A) To understand how Earth's surface is reshaped
(B) No reason
(C) It's not useful
(D) Only for tests