{
  "id": "566f6b19-3486-53e8-a1c2-732bebe0eb0a",
  "slug": "option-c-extreme-environments-characteristics-and-processes",
  "title": "Option C Extreme environments: Characteristics and processes",
  "course": "IB Geography",
  "level": "SL and HL",
  "topic": "C",
  "questionCount": 15,
  "page": "https://splycr.com/ib-geography/option-c-extreme-environments-characteristics-and-processes",
  "data": "https://splycr.com/library/option-c-extreme-environments-characteristics-and-processes.json",
  "play": "https://splycr.com/?set=566f6b19-3486-53e8-a1c2-732bebe0eb0a",
  "section": {
    "name": "Option C: Extreme environments",
    "page": "https://splycr.com/ib-geography/extreme-environments"
  },
  "source": {
    "name": "Biology by Bradford",
    "href": "https://www.biologybybradford.com",
    "note": "Written for the splycr library by Biology by Bradford."
  },
  "questions": [
    {
      "number": 1,
      "question": "Ratio of precipitation to potential evapotranspiration, used to classify drylands?",
      "answer": "Aridity index",
      "wrongOptions": [
        "Humidity index",
        "Moisture deficit",
        "Water budget"
      ]
    },
    {
      "number": 2,
      "question": "Ground that stays at or below 0 °C for at least two consecutive years?",
      "answer": "Permafrost",
      "wrongOptions": [
        "Active layer",
        "Tundra",
        "Talik"
      ]
    },
    {
      "number": 3,
      "question": "Surface soil above perennially frozen ground that thaws each summer?",
      "answer": "Active layer",
      "wrongOptions": [
        "Talik",
        "Regolith",
        "Ice lens"
      ]
    },
    {
      "number": 4,
      "question": "Shortage of oxygen in the body's tissues, a risk at high altitude?",
      "answer": "Hypoxia",
      "wrongOptions": [
        "Hypothermia",
        "Frostbite",
        "Dehydration"
      ]
    },
    {
      "number": 5,
      "question": "Glacial erosion where ice freezes onto rock and pulls fragments away?",
      "answer": "Plucking",
      "wrongOptions": [
        "Abrasion",
        "Freeze–thaw weathering",
        "Basal sliding"
      ]
    },
    {
      "number": 6,
      "question": "Water in rock joints expanding by about 9% as ice, repeatedly, until the rock splits?",
      "answer": "Freeze–thaw weathering",
      "wrongOptions": [
        "Exfoliation",
        "Frost heave",
        "Hydrolysis"
      ]
    },
    {
      "number": 7,
      "question": "Upward bulging of the ground as ice lenses grow beneath the surface?",
      "answer": "Frost heave",
      "wrongOptions": [
        "Solifluction",
        "Nivation",
        "Freeze–thaw weathering"
      ]
    },
    {
      "number": 8,
      "question": "Slow downslope flow of saturated active-layer soil over frozen ground?",
      "answer": "Solifluction",
      "wrongOptions": [
        "Frost heave",
        "Soil creep",
        "Mudflow"
      ]
    },
    {
      "number": 9,
      "question": "Ice-cored hill, up to tens of metres high, in periglacial areas?",
      "answer": "Pingo",
      "wrongOptions": [
        "Drumlin",
        "Esker",
        "Roche moutonnée"
      ]
    },
    {
      "number": 10,
      "question": "Armchair-shaped hollow eroded at the head of a glaciated valley?",
      "answer": "Corrie",
      "wrongOptions": [
        "Arête",
        "Hanging valley",
        "Pyramidal peak"
      ]
    },
    {
      "number": 11,
      "question": "Smooth, elongated mound of till, streamlined in the direction of ice flow?",
      "answer": "Drumlin",
      "wrongOptions": [
        "Esker",
        "Erratic",
        "Terminal moraine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "number": 12,
      "question": "Wind removing loose, fine particles from a desert surface?",
      "answer": "Deflation",
      "wrongOptions": [
        "Abrasion",
        "Saltation",
        "Attrition"
      ]
    },
    {
      "number": 13,
      "question": "Peeling away of curved outer rock layers, also called onion-skin weathering?",
      "answer": "Exfoliation",
      "wrongOptions": [
        "Salt weathering",
        "Hydrolysis",
        "Carbonation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "number": 14,
      "question": "Steep-sided, usually dry desert valley that floods after rare storms?",
      "answer": "Wadi",
      "wrongOptions": [
        "Mesa",
        "Playa",
        "Pediment"
      ]
    },
    {
      "number": 15,
      "question": "Crescent-shaped sand dune with horns pointing downwind?",
      "answer": "Barchan",
      "wrongOptions": [
        "Seif",
        "Star dune",
        "Yardang"
      ]
    }
  ]
}