multiple choice
The organic material in soil is called ____________
a. sand
b. metal
c. humus
d. strata
What is humus?
What is a glacier?
Rock changed in form by heat and pressure is metamorphic rock.
True
Define longshore drift.
The process in which sediments are transported along the coast with the current.
The first stage of Noah's Flood is called what stage?
The Flooding Stage.
What is the mineral that contains metal?
a. coal
b. ore
c. precious stone
d. natural gas
What is ore?
The remains or impression of living things, usually preserved in sedimentary rock is a __________.
What is a fossil?
The type of rock formed from magma or lava is sedimentary rock.
False ; igneous
Name the vaporous fossil fuel.
What is natural gas?
An enormous wave caused by an earthquake is called a _____________.
What is a tsunami?
Underwater plains that border the continents are called the ________________.
a. rift
b. shore
c. sandbar
d. wave
What is a rift?
A high ridge that separates two river systems is a __________.
What is a. drainage divide?
An opening in the ocean floor that releases hot, mineral-rich water is an ocean trench.
False ; hydrothermal vent
Define geosphere.
The solid parts of the Earth.
The idea that present observation can explain all the geological features of the earth is ______________.
What is uniformitarianism?
The missing link between two kinds of animals that evolutionists believe will prove that one animal can turn into another is called ______________.
a. fossil
b. geologic column
c. bonebed
d. transitional form
What is transitional form?
The center of the Earth is called the ____________.
What is the core?
An island parallel to the mainland's shore is an estuary island.
False ; barrier
Name the crude oil that is thick, dark liquid.
What is petroleum?
The abyssal plain is the flat and mostly level ________ of the ocean.
A body of water where a river meets the ocean is called a _______________.
a. estuary
b. shore
c. tide
d. aquifer
What is an estuary?
Define hydrosphere
What is all water on Earth, whether liquid, solid or gas?
The theory that crustal plate activity can cause geological events and processes is plate tectonics.
True
Name the alternative fuel that is made of plant and animal products.
What is biofuel?
What is the type of seafloor mud made from minerals and the remains of tiny ocean organisms?
What is ooze?