Progress Check 5a
Quiz by Amber Snyder
Feel free to use or edit a copy
includes Teacher and Student dashboards
Measure skillsfrom any curriculum
Measure skills
from any curriculum
Tag the questions with any skills you have. Your dashboard will track each student's mastery of each skill.
With a free account, teachers can
- edit the questions
- save a copy for later
- start a class game
- automatically assign follow-up activities based on students’ scores
- assign as homework
- share a link with colleagues
- print as a bubble sheet
10 questions
Show answers
- Q1The voids in soil is comprised of ________.mineral grains, air, water, and organic mattermineral grains, voids, and organic materialwater, mineral grains, and airair, water, and organic materials300s
- Q2What are the two general soil particle shapes?Rounded and AngularBulky and platySub-rounded and Sub-angularClay and Silt300s
- Q3Moisture has its greatest effect on what type of soil?SandsCobblesGravelFine-grained soils300s
- Q4What grain or particle shape would "best" describe clay?PlatyAngularBulkyRounded300s
- Q5When grain to grain contact is increased, the tendency for displacement of individual grains under a load is _____________.not affecteddecreasedincreased or decreased depending on the type of soilincreased300s
- Q6What causes water to seek a lower layer and move until it reaches some restriction?Gravitational pullCapillary actionSurface waterSubsurface water300s
- Q7What type of action causes moisture to rise to a higher level?SubsurfaceGravityCapillaryDensity300s
- Q8What term is used to determine whether a soil is cohesive?Liquid LimitShrinkage LimitPlasticity IndexPlastic Limit300s
- Q9When dealing with consistency, what are the dividing lines between the Solid, Semi-solid, Plastic, and Liquid states called?Plasticity Index, Shrinkage Limit, Plastic LimitLiquid Limit, Plastic Limit, Plasticity IndexLiquid Limit, Plasticity Index, Shrinkage LimitShrinkage Limit, Plastic Limit, Liquid Limit300s
- Q10____________ grained soils can be compacted to a greater density.Well graded, fineWell graded, coarseUniformly graded, coarseUniformly graded, fine300s